Friday, August 22, 2008

Gustav Klimt Hope painting

Gustav Klimt Hope paintingClaude Monet The Seine At Argenteuil paintingClaude Monet The Picnic painting
sense -- in the hope that somequid pro quo could then be diplomatically arranged: he, Ira, would guarantee his brother's support for Chancellor Rexford's varsity policies; the Chancellor in turn could not only find grounds to spare the headed by the lovable old professor-general, but might in addition see to it that Ira's counterparts in the textbook field werenot spared. The scheme seemed a likely one, but as a cautious entrepreneur Ira was suspicious of the new chancellor's youth and the fact that Rexford's own fortune had been inherited, rather than earned in the rough-and-tumble of competitive research -- both which factors might lead him to put principle above interest, as it were, and proceed the more vigorously against any organization which attempted to negotiate with him. To minimize that risk, it were preferable that the overtures to negotiation be made by the Chancellor himself, who however must needs be assured by some close and disinterested advisor that they would not be rebuffed. The man for that work was Maurice

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