Word: fount
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...What a fount of facts! The latest news as well as stories filed in the New York Times information bank. Energy-saving suggestions and automotive news, theater directories and wine guides, horoscopes and biorhythms. For the academic, language tutorials and physics lessons. Recipes for the culinary minded, general ledgers and inventories for businessmen, backgammon and Monopoly for children. Not to mention information on income tax deductions and mortgage payments. Indeed one can even order airline tickets through the service...
Though in awe of his heroes, Judson is not blind to their egomanias and foibles. Watson is "markedly bright and never accustomed to hide the fact." Linus Pauling, a fount of chemical wis dom and occasional foolishness, has "un quenchable self-confidence." Biochemist Erwin Chargaff, bypassed by the DNA revolution, is "the man of mordant dissent." But in the main, the author is content to take the role of acolyte, bombarding his gifted tutors with questions, some incisive, others pointedly rhetorical. As Judson plays student to Nobel Laureates Crick and Perutz, so does the reader, who, if patient enough...
...inject this regional stereotype with credibility but unfortunately, his Sonny comes off like a muscle-bound teddy-bear blessed with the patience of Baptist Mother Theresa. Supposedly a divorced father, Sonny behaves with such liberated understanding that it seems impossible any woman would depart from this well-built fount of warmth and wisdom. The character fails because he was created simply to be the 'wife' every working woman needs to take care of the kids. With Sonny around, the audience can't fault Field with being a neglectful...
...dogmas of modern art is that Paris, between 1870 and 1939, was the cultural center of Europe and the world: the fount of norms, clearinghouse of ideas and Vatican of newness. Yet around the turn of the century, the supremacy of Paris did not seem quite so clear-cut. "If I had a son who wanted to be a painter," a 16-year-old student wrote in 1897, "I would not keep him in Spain for a moment, and do not imagine I would send him to Paris . . . but to Munich . . . as it is a city where painting is studied...
...seekers have gone, mostly from the U.S., Britain and West Germany. Among recent visitors: Actor Terence Stamp, Singer Diana Ross and the Marquis of Bath. Now the guru is instructing his best-connected disciple yet: Richard Price, co-founder and director of the Esalen Institute, the very fount of the encounter craze. Price will return to the Big Sur, Calif., center in mid-January to apply the teachings of his new master...