Word: bergson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the American humorist may yet lead himself out of the dark by re-examining his own craft. "The one specific remedy for vanity is laughter," wrote Philosopher Henri Bergson, "and the one failing that is essentially laughable is vanity." Is it only society that is laughable today? Or is it the humorists themselves, too proud or fearful or full of disdain to fulfill their function? That function is to be society's mocking bird, not its vulture. What the U.S. can always use is something that everyone has in him but only a true humorist can bring...
...scholar, he converted the classics of seven languages into Greek. As a philosopher, he absorbed Bergson, Nietzsche, Buddha and Lenin, and formed a derivative, somewhat nihilistic creed that seemed to sentence man to hopelessness and Western civilization to death. As a poet, he added 33,333 poetic lines to Homer's Odyssey-three times the master's output-and then dared to call it a modern sequel to that epic from the dawn of Western thought...
Among the signatories were Abram Bergson, Director of the Russian Research Center; Melvin Croan '53, assistant professor of Government; Merle E. Fainsod, Carl H. Pforsheimer, University Professor; Richard E. Pipes, professor of History; and Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, professor of History and Government...
...Abram Bergson, professor of Economics, asserted that Nikita was not so "hairbrained" as all that. He noted the five good years the Russian economy enjoyed at the height of Khrushchev's power, but admitted that recently the Soviet Union has been economically stagnant...
...Bergson, Fainsod's successor at the Research Center, is on a leave of absence while working at the Ford Foundation's Center for Behavioural Sciences in Stanford, Calif...