Word: fountainhead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Apprenticeship. The fountainhead of talent on which both of these groups depends is the provincial theater. In Britain there are 57 fulltime, professional repertory companies-twice as many as in the U.S., which is four times as populous and 40 times bigger. The regional theater is provincial in name only. The Bristol Old Vic, for example, now has had three of its productions running in repertory in London this season, next year will perform three Shakespeare works on Broadway...
...Fountainhead. Moyers has been long enough at the fountainhead of power to feel almost certain that he will remain in public life. Few Texans see a bright future for him as an elected representative of their state; his views on civil rights and economics are too liberal. Lately he has grown more interested in foreign relations, and may some day head in that direction. In any case, he is unlikely to abandon the seminary-bred notion of service. "Do you know that the word 'idiot' comes from the Greek?" asks Moyers, who studied the language in order...
...played by Rod Taylor, John Cassidy is a fountainhead of wild Irish charm, a two-fisted brawler whose pursuit of the arts looks rather like typing practice. Now and then, between barroom fights and bedroom bouts, he taps out a masterpiece or two for the Abbey Theatre. But if his escapades are superficial biography, they often come across as stirring, hearty drama...
...hungry author, yesterday's get-rich-quick formula was to produce a popular success and then sell it to the movies. Today, Hollywood's supremacy as the fountainhead is under serious challenge by the paperbacks. Once little more than literary scavengers prospecting the bestseller lists for low-risk, high-return reprints, the paperback publishers have risen on soaring profits to the estate of a wealthy and indiscriminate buyer that no writer can afford to ignore...
...HUAC," the civil rights workers' petition concludes, "is the fountainhead of the threat to an open society. It denies what we went to Mississippi...