Word: bergson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American economy continues to grow at the present rate of about three-and-a-half per cent a year, the Soviets will probably catch up to the United States in the 1980's, Abram Bergson, professor of Economics, predicted at the Hillel Round Table of World Affairs yesterday...
Echoing his opinions expressed in a letter printed in the New York Times yesterday, Bergson criticized the optimism of political campaigners, which he believes is based on a misunderstanding of the facts. Because retarding and accelerating growth factors in the Russian economy will tend to cancel each other out in the future, Bergson predicted that the Soviet Union will continue to grow at its present rate of seven per cent a year...
Double Purpose. While most Western specialists were happy to have a Russian confirmation of their suspicions, Harvard's Professor Abram Bergson did not think Strumilin went far enough and called his calculations "dubious." A new set of production tables compiled by the Rand Corp. show that from 1928 to 1956 the Soviet economy grew by 633%, or less than half as much as even Strumilin's revised figure...
Nietzsche's superman was one of his first ideals; Henri Bergson's matter-mastering Life Force was his first philosophy, followed by bouts with Buddhism and Leninism. Though he sometimes sounded like an atheist and proclaimed that man creates God in his own image, Kazantzakis was agonized by the struggle for faith and haunted by the figure of Christ. His 1948 novel, The Greek Passion-in which a group of villagers with roles in a passion play are forced to act out their roles in real life-movingly restated the old idea that if Christ returned to earth...
...Bridge. Kazantzakis' basic notion that man creates God in his own evolving image-the theory that God is essentially the search for God-may appeal to humanists and troubled skeptics, will antagonize the religious. Philosophically, the Greek writer's twin deities were Bergson (with whom he studied) and Nietzsche. From Bergson he borrowed the idea of an ever upward-rushing elan vital or life force; from Nietzsche he took the belief that "man is a bridge and not an end," and that his task is to surpass himself. Saviors of God is couched in the form and style...