Word: bergson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Merle Fainsod will retire June 30 as director of Harvard's Russian Research Center. Abram Bergson, professor of Economics, will succeed him in the post, which is customarily held for five years...
...years have passed, the Class of 1913 has adjusted to the changing world. They seem to have remembered a lecture given by Henri Bergson in the Spring of 1913. Bergson found stability in change itself. Life seen as movement, as a perpetual creation, could "only reassure man of his immortality...
Famed normaliens include Henri Bergson, Louis Pasteur, Jules Romains and Jean-Paul Sartre. Before World War II, the school also bred Socialist politicians from Jaurès to Blum. Even now, De Gaulle's Premier is Normalien Georges Pompidou, a banker-professor who writes books on French writers from Racine to Malraux. Yet he is not typical: in the Fifth Republic, normaliens have lost political influence...
...told something of the origin of the Cambridge research group. The parts of the brain which direct awareness, he said, "usually alert us to game committments, and not much else. Everything outside and inside gets strained through the fifteen or so game patterns--computer programs--and literature, more recently Bergson and Aldous Huxley, has been telling us for centuries that this is slavery." The Cambridge group started with the close co-operation of Aldous Huxley, in whose novel Brave New World the psycho-activating drug "soma" is widely used...
...Bergson & Bosch. If Cancer was an old world debauch, Capricorn is a kind of New World Sinphony. an account of Author Miller's coming of age in New York City (1900-23). Incredibly garrulous and grotesque, the book is a disordered Horatio Alger story: escape from a poor Brooklyn boyhood, as it might have been written by Harpo Marx and Hieronymus Bosch working together. Wild philosophic maunderings sprinkled with a self-taught man's self-conscious display of highfalutin' acquaintances (Bergson, Nietzsche. Whitman) proclaim Miller's belief in the sovereignty of the heart over the mind...