Dedication at Copland House A congratulatory mood prevailed in Cortlandt last Sunday, when the Copland House was dedicated as a retreat for composers and a wellspring for American music.
This old Barbary port, with a reputation as one of Libya's most pious cities and, in the words of a WikiLeaks cable, a "wellspring for foreign fighters in Iraq," suggests a more nuanced picture of what role militant Islam may play in a city and country fumbling to forge a body politic in a land without one.
He does not easily admit that he needs to make them happy, or why he needs to make them happy, but anyone who really looks at the work he does in the South Bronx knows that his community — the people he loves and casts — is a wellspring for him, the source of a remarkable vision.
The Ten Commandments, The Passion of the Christ, the forthcoming Russell Crowe epic Noah – the Bible has long been a wellspring for filmmakers, who have also used a struggle between Christian good and evil in horror films from The Exorcist to Stigmata.
This long 2008 presidential race has been a wellspring for button designs, some produced by the campaigns and others by entrepreneurs.
To the Editor: Since 1847, the City University of New York has been a wellspring for home-grown scholarship and creativity from the city's diverse populations, especially its immigrant communities, among which New York's Jews were prominent for several generations.
Two of the three participants were born there — Njideka Akunyili in Nigeria in 1983, Meleko Mokgosi in Botswana in 1981 — and their experience of it is a wellspring for very different and accomplished kinds of painting.
Above and beyond its role as a wellspring for anti-Communism, and anti-Communist paranoia, Dallas was the fount of some of the ugliest anti-Kennedy vitriol in circulation.
Interviews with business owners, students, government officials and immigrants in the area suggest that illegal immigration has been a wellspring for anger and tension in the neighborhood, with day laborers drawing the greatest fire.
Barack Obama voted in favor of the measure, which became a wellspring for the NSA's Prism program and its "upstream" siphoning of data transiting across the internet's fiberoptic backbone, while Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton voted against it.
