Word: fountainhead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Decision in 1965. "Some of our voices in the pulpit today," Nixon wrote, "speak too much about religion in the abstract, rather than in personal, simple terms. More preaching from the Bible rather than just about the Bible is what America needs." Nixon also described religion as "the true fountainhead of America's strength. I have a profound conviction that the whole national experience of our people, the extent to which the American idea has worked, is evidence of the interdependence of a widely shared religious faith and the vigorous health of a free American society...
GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL was a prodigal master, an adaptive musical fountainhead who composed vast quantities of epic choral dramas, superb operas, incidental and instrumental works. His creative fertility was so prodigious that his 97 volumes of autographs exceed the combined complete works of Bach and Beethoven. Although a contemporary of Corelli, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, and Telemann. Handel beggared their combined achievements with his limitless genius. Yet while the scope of Bach, Handel's only contemporary equal, is now fully grasped, the boundless wealth of Handel has been reduced to one or two operatic arias, a couple of organ concertos, the Water...
...Soviet Union has always argued that it was more than just a nation. As the fountainhead of an ideology that promised to right the world's wrongs and usher in a golden age of peace and equality among men, it has possessed a unique mystique and prestige that enhanced its already formidable power as a huge and populous sovereign state. As the defender of Communism, moreover, the Soviet Union long could do no wrong in the eyes of its followers the world over. The image of Russia as the ideological motherland was buffeted by the defiance of Yugoslavia...
...second, much smaller, national student organization goes by the name Intercollegiate Society of Individualists (ISI). Other than that ISI is ideologically grounded in the "objectivist" philosophy (reason, self-interest, individualism, capitalism) of novelist Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged), little is known about this group...
Henk was a brilliant student, and fired with the zeal of mission: the salvation of South Africa for its rightful owners, the Boers. Turning down a fat scholarship in Britain, he entered Stellenbosch University, the fountainhead of Afrikanerdom, and became South Africa's first Ph.D. in mass psychology. In 1927, he married Elizabeth Schoombee, a petite fellow student at Stellenbosch. In many ways, Betsie Verwoerd is as remarkable as her husband. Holder of an M.A. in education, she has borne him five boys and two girls-and brags that no black ever bathed them or put them...