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This week's theme is: The source. fountainhead 
(noun)
[FOUN-tahn-hed']
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1. a spring that is the source of a stream: "This tiny fountainhead turns into a rushing stream 5 miles from here."
2. an abundant source of something abstract, as knowledge, etc.
Origin:
Approximately 1580; from 'fountain' + 'head.'
In action:
"SO: Considering your predispositions, which modern artists do you like to listen to?
TW: Prince. He's out there. He's uncompromising. He's a real fountainhead. Takes dangerous chances. He's androgynous, wicked, voodoo. I like a lot of rap stuff, because it's real, immediate. Generally, I like things as they begin, because the [music] industry tears at you. Most artists come out the other side like a dead carp."
Steve Oney. [Interview with Mr. Tom Waits] Playboy Magazine (March 1988).
"Vast government contracts have corrupted the American university system, turning off the fountainhead of unfettered ideas and scientific discovery. Multibillion-dollar federal R&D budgets have replaced the solitary inventor with veritable armies of scientists and engineers in laboratories across the country. Public policy itself has become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
2005? Try 1961. The paragraph above was taken with only minor changes from President Dwight Eisenhower's famous farewell address."
Alan H. Goldstein. "The (really scary) soldier of the future," [Thanks to nanotechnology, he'll be a lethal superman who can heal himself.] Salon.com (October 20, 2005).
"The bewitching song of El Dorado--fabled fountainhead of gold--still echoes along Venezuela's longest river as it flows past rain forest burrows, cattle ranches, and natural caches of mineral wealth. The Orinoco is a river of many contrasts, and author Donovan Webster visited some of the people who rely on it for both survival and profit."
"Story Highlights: The Orinoco," National Geographic Magazine (April 1998).
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