‘responsibility for social life’ he argued that this can often be achieved using laughter and humour: ‘to make people laugh, [is] to expand the human being. Laughter is like heat, like food, like a deep breath. Without humor the human being is not able to expand’ (TAITT: 16 January 1938). In 1991, Baars met Chekhov teacher Lenard Petit, who introduced
