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For 1912, Fenway Park must have been such an architectural marvel, you'd think Howard Roark of "Fountainhead" fame designed it.
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Incidentally, I believe that Roark was completely moral in his actions but because this might have landed him in jail, I would not recommend this course.
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In any event, it was the cinematic version of The Fountainhead where Wynand commits suicide as Roark leaves the room near the close of the film.
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In "The Fountainhead, " which was published in 1943, her hero was an architect, Howard Roark, who pursued his vision despite opposition from the media and the architectural establishment.
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And you demonstrate this by citing the climax of the novel and not the multitude of years preceding it where Roark is continuously mistreated for having talent and integrity.
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There hasn't been a movie about architecture with this much popular appeal since that masterpiece of Hollywood kitsch, "The Fountainhead, " in which Gary Cooper played Howard Roark, the terminally romantic, fictional architect-hero of Ayn Rand's novel.
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The book was widely denounced as amoral when it came out, but it had enough wide appeal that it was adapted into a 1949 movie with Gary Cooper as Roark and Patricia Neal as his love interest.
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The first six months after delivering her son were the hardest for Roark, as she struggled to figure out the balance between taking care of her newborn and having time for her own needs as basic as showering.
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