Word: fountainheads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Where the Side-walk Ends by Shel Silverstein, Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, Beloved by Toni Morrison and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand rounded out the list...
...norm. If everyone conformed, schools could successfully be made up of "productive" students who effectively stick with traditional studies and perhaps make the honor roll. It seems that we must eliminate the deviant geniuses and artists in favor of the conforming sycophants whom some see as the fountainhead of societal progress. O brave new world! JOHN M. DE PALMA Succsunna...
...Greenspan married Joan Mitchell, a painter. While they stayed together for less than a year, Joan Mitchell introduced him to Ayn Rand, the author of The Fountainhead and the proponent of the objectivist philosophy of which Greenspan became a follower...
This pragmatism is a faith that recalls nothing so much as the objectivist philosophy of the novelist and social critic Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged), which Greenspan has studied intently. During long nights at Rand's apartment and through her articles and letters, Greenspan found in objectivism a sense that markets are an expression of the deepest truths about human nature and that, as a result, they will ultimately be correct...
...those who invariably tote around a copy of The Fountainhead--rife with the requisite pithy marginalia--will savor this lecture presented by the Harvard Objectivist Club. Dr. Gary Hull will speak about "Neo-Puritan Assault on Sex and Pleasure"-- offering a wonderfully diametrically alternative to the excessive, hedonistic pleasures of CityStep's Annual Ball. Why would anyone dance the night away in unnecessarily opulent getups when one could consider, instead, "the fusion of Plato, Christianity and Kantian - inspired nihilism"? Gosh...