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...year periods come from other universities--usually during a paid sabbatical since the center's finances allow few stipends to visiting scholars, no matter how expert or promising. For their travelling the visitors are rewarded, occupying cubicles right down the corridor from luminaries such as Abram Bergson and Marshal Goldman, experts on the Soviet economy, and even Ulam himself...
...believe that one could extract "essences" from nature-shapes that symbolized different kinds of force, growth and élan vital, and that constituted the inner structure of reality. This belief, which owed as much to Mme. Blavatsky and her ilk as to Henri Bergson, was common among early abstract artists. Its embodiment, for Dove, was in works like Team of Horses (1911), one of the first abstract paintings ever made in the U.S.: the curling shapes, fringed with sawtooth edges and inset between thick dark lines, are like a premonitory flicker of art deco, but Dove's intent...
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
...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...