Word: bergson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chen is not a man with his eyes shut running rapidly backward to 500 B.C. He reads, and admires, philosophers of change, especially Henri Bergson. But Chen insists that since billions of Chinese people have carried on the world's most stable society on Confucian principles, those principles must be reapplied, not abandoned. Confucius said: "A river, like truth, flows forever and will have no end." Chen does not want the continuity of Chinese society submerged under Western ideas of individualism or materialism...
...Samuel Bergson...
...fever that throbs in a sure-enough gambler's veins. Of that momentous night when Charley had his triumph-and his comeuppance-Wisconsin-born Author Heth has made a fast-moving short novel. His slightly lopsided characters look startlingly real in the smoky, harshly lit room where little Bergson sweats over, a two-bit bet and a stranger's trembling hands stake $8000 on one roll of the dice...
...main object will be not to have under construction a vast number of ships and plants scheduled for completion at some remote date in the future. Rather, there must be under construction a smaller number, as outlined above, scheduled for the most rapid completion humanly possible. Gustav Bergson, Instructor in Physics and Communication Engineering
...James's Golden Bowl edged out his brother's Principles of Psychology for 13th place, and Lenin's Imperialism; the State and Revolution nosed out his master Marx's Das Kapital. Also rans: Charles Beard's Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the U.S.; Bergson's Creative Evolution; Frazer's Golden Bough; W. H. Hudson's Far Away and Long Ago; William James's Moral Equivalent of War; Lewis' Babbitt; Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought; Tolstoy's What...