Word: bergson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States should meet the recent Russian campaign to aid underdeveloped countries with a "bolder and more vigorous foreign economic program," Abram Bergson, professor of Economics, said last night. Bergson spoke in a lecture at the Geographical Institute on "The Rise of Economic Competition in the Cold...
...Wellesley's current presentation of Man and Superman. For Shaw wrote Methuselah in 1921 as a companion sequel to his Superman of 1903. In the earlier play Shaw argued his thesis, taken from Schopenhauer, that woman is the pursuer rather than the pursued; and his ideas, taken from Bergson, about the Life Force (elan vital). Methuselah continues the same discussion, except that Shaw now adopts Bergson's later term Creative Evolution...
...grew up to study law in Athens and philosophy in Paris. Returning to Greece in 1914, he published the first of his nine novels. He has traveled in Spain, Russia, England, Egypt, China and Japan, and written books on all of them, together with philosophical treatises on Nietzsche and Bergson, ten plays centering on such figures as Christ, Ulysses and Julian the Apostate, and his own 33,333 line Odyssey, which begins where Homer's leaves...
...Government lawyer, Brownell charged Bergson had prosecuted a price-fixing and monopoly suit against the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. and the Carborundum Co., and had refused to permit the U.S. Pipe Line Co. to offer price differentials to oil shippers on a proposed new pipeline. Later, as a private attorney, Bergson got a Justice Department clearance for a merger between Minnesota Mining and Carborundum (which did not take place), and worked out a method of getting the price differential permission for U.S. Pipe Line by guaranteeing that no shipper would use more than 20% of the line's capacity...
...Bergson denied that he had ever passed on the U.S. Pipe Line request, but his chief defense was that "claims" against the Government under the law could involve only money or property. Judge Charles F. McLaughlin agreed and, since he directed the jury to acquit Bergson, the Government cannot appeal. Any other interpretation, said the judge, "would lead to absurd results," and he took the occasion to lecture Government attorneys that the legal interpretation of criminal laws is "not a game to be played." Brownell, who feels that there is an ethical consideration as well, announced that he would...