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Thus in 1700 AD the citizens of New Haven, tired of contributing to the support of an institution of decided Crimson hue in far-off Cambridge since the year 1644, decided to "educate ministers in their own way," and ten clergymen, Harvard graduates all, convened to do the job. Not until 18 years later, however, in 1718 when a certain Governor of the British East India Company saw fit to contribute his fortune to the Arts and Sciences, did the embryo college become financially secure, and in gratitude they immortalized the name of Elihu Yale...
...retired Marine captain, a rich cosmetics importer, a sculptor or two. Some sailed, some swam, some drove to resorts in the mountains, and some just sat on their porches in the moonlight, sipping rum drinks handed them by white-coated houseboys, listening to the beat of far-off voodoo drums...
...starkest of the Seven, Lawren S. Harris (whose painting matches Rockwell Kent's for sober, barren clarity), stopped the debate cold by a passionate outburst: "It is blasphemy to wilt under the weight of ages; to succumb to secondhand living; to mumble old, dead catch phrases; to praise far-off things and sneer at your neighbor's clumsiness...
...this was an ironic footnote to Bretton Woods. The Monetary Fund was supposed to prevent currency wars. But its founders were thinking of depression and the export of deflation-i.e., wars to devalue currencies. That kind of a war seemed such a far-off possibility that the nations took their time setting up the Fund. Now it would not be ready to operate for six months. Would a first-class currency war be delayed that long...
...have task"). And standing on the other side was Arthur Griffith, little and squat, spectacles on his nose, a dark green velour hat stuck on his head, "the great man with the brain of ice," probably dreaming of Cathleen ni Houlihan and never giving a thought to the far-off days when he would be Eire's President...