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...After next year, unless additional funds are received, it will be impossible to continue to run [the center] in the future," said Economics Professor Abram Bergson, who gave the most pessimistic prognosis for Soviet studies at Harvard...
...Harvard has made significant contributions to the center, such as faculty salaries and building space," Bergson pointed...
...Abram Bergson, Baker Professor of Economics, said "weakness in this area [communications] can encourage a first strike...
Also noting the difficult circumstances of Watson's tenure. Abram Bergson, Baker Professor of Economics, says, "I don't have a sense of any sharp involvement which would make him stand out from the country's general pursuit at that time. But maybe there was something going on behind the scenes...
...then do we hoot at these mistakes? For one thing, it may be that we simply find conventional discourse so predictable and boring that any deviation comes as a delightful relief. In his deeply unfunny Essay on Laughter the philosopher Henri Bergson theorized that the act of laughter is caused by any interruption of normal human fluidity or momentum (a pie in the face, a mask, a pun). Slips of the tongue, therefore, are like slips on banana peels; we crave their occurrence if only to break the monotonies. The monotonies run to substance. When that announcer introduced Hoobert Heever...