Max Eastman
Max Eastman
Max Forrester Eastmanwas an American writer on literature, philosophy and society; a poet, and a prominent political activist. Moving to New York City for graduate school, Eastman became involved with liberal and radical circles in Greenwich Village. He supported socialism and became a leading patron of the Harlem Renaissance, and an activist for a number of liberal and radical causes. For several years, he edited The Masses. With his sister Crystal Eastman, in 1917 he co-founded The Liberator, a radical...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth4 January 1883
CountryUnited States of America
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.
Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.