Word: bergson
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...grant is a "big boost" for the Center because it will create a substantial endowment and provide funds for post-doctoral fellowships. Abram Bergson, George F. Baker professor of Economics and director of the Russian Research Center, said yesterday...
Although the Center received money from the Ford Foundation for operating expenditures since its founding, these grants were never sufficient to fund either an endowment or post-doctoral fellowships, Bergson said...
...given to the Center by the Mellon Foundation. $500,000 will be used as permanent endowment for junior and senior post-doctoral fellowships, while the remining $100,000 will go toward the Center's library and its additional expenses over a five-year period, Bergson said...
...Mellon grant fills the financial gap between limited government financial support and waning grants from the Ford Foundation, which concluded its funding of the Center with a matching grant of $500,000, Bergson said...
...revelation of the most important thing: the sense of pure energy radiating from beyond the dance. Ensemble produces a whole greater than the dancers through which the performers as individuals emerge. If music is, as Henri Bergson implies, our intuition of inner time made concrete, then dance makes concrete our sense of inner aliveness, the sensation of blood through our veins, of that inner motor that keeps us living. Laura Dean creates dances as metaphors for being totally and completely alive...