Word: founts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Culture of Complaint," to be published later this year by Oxford University Press. The lectures were inspired by his unhappiness at efforts to remake U.S. school curriculums along politically correct lines. "What angers me is the herd instinct that leads people to suppose that European culture is the fount of all evils in the ^ world," says Hughes. "I don't believe...
...delusion that the business of business is to manufacture something useful, even to be something useful as a provider of jobs and community stability. Larry's insistence that business's only business is to maximize shareholder profits may be reprehensible to most people. But he's a bubbling fount of zestful zingers, nasty but never less than half truthful, and often entirely so. Most important, DeVito's Larry is the power source for Other People's Money -- a little C-cell that somehow manages to keep a handsome, reasonably pertinent but sometimes draggy movie sparking along...
...tenets changed little between 1964 and 1980. Yet while Barry Goldwater came across as a reactionary, Ronald Reagan established himself as spokesman for Everyman. Reagan altered some nuances, to be sure, but the major change in the interim was that many citizens had lost confidence in Washington as a fount of social progress...
Perhaps the most significant fount of dissent in Cuba is the generation gap. Half of Cuba's 10 million people were born after Castro seized power in 1959. "People who lived through the revolution had a sense of what they were fighting against," says a U.S. State Department official. "The kids who have grown up since don't. All they've been told is austerity, austerity, less and less freedom...