Howard Roark's Testimony At The Cortlandt Trial

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other words, he did not realize that allowing Keating to propose the project to be a threat to his individualistic ideals.
Roark’s unnoticed failure greatly changes the logic of his testimony. He explains how the great scientists and thinkers were condemned for their new ideas. He is obviously paralleling this to the Cortlandt project. It is incredibly true that as the ideas endured criticism and condemnation, they were eventually seen as good and very useful. This is a perfect argument for all his buildings in general, but not for the Cortlandt project. The reason is that the Cortlandt project was no longer his own. This is true both legally as well as individualistic standards. Howard Roark was completely oblivious to the fact that his design risked being altered conformed to the ways of society. If Roark had done the whole process on his own (the design, and proposal) the building would probably not have been built, but if it had, it would have been his way. It would ...

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