Word: bergson
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Scorn. That despair suddenly dissolved when they heard lectures at the College de France by Philosopher Henri Bergson, whose theories of creative evolution exalted the spirit of man and his ability to find basic reality through intuition. Then, in 1905, Jacques and Raïssa, now newlyweds, happened into a life-changing friendship with Novelist Léon Bloy, a wild, irascible spirit and passionate Catholic who preached to his smug culture that faith and social conscience were inseparable. "Money," Bloy once wrote, "is the blood of the poor." Both of the Maritains were baptized as Catholics...
...been. I feel, amazingly small. Judgment of the Press's list is properly left to others not connected with Harvard, but I for one would be surprised if there is a single university press in the country that would not gladly exchange its list for Harvard's. Abram Bergson Baker Professor of Economics
...Abram Bergson, Taussig Research Professor, will succeed Kuznets as Baker Professor of Economics July 1. He has been a professor at Harvard since...
...Bergson is an authority on the economy of the USSR, and taught at Texas and Columbia Universities. He has been a consultant to the RAND Corporation and to several federal agencies and is currently a member of the Social Science Advisory Board of the U. S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. In addition to his research he has taught an upper level course on the economics of Eastern Europe and Socialist countries...
...This rule points up another obscure, but actual Faculty corollary, passed last January, called the Bergson Rule. The Bergson Rule, named after Abram Bergson, professor of Economics, says that if any proposal is passed at a Faculty meeting attended by less than a third of the Faculty, the next meeting has a right to overrule the motion. This tidbit is mentioned only to show how absurdly formalistic the Faculty has now become...