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...Russ I. Gershon '81, jazz director and acting station manager for the summer, said yesterday, "We want the station to be less a function of the school year than a part of the Cambridge atmosphere. We're striving to sound more professional...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: WHRB to Broadcast Over Summer For First Time in 37-Year History | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

...depression-a violent swing of moods from mind-racing euphoria to utter despair. Some doctors feel that lithium is being touted so hard that programs such as Maude may cause a public clamor for lithium to combat both severe depression and simple cases of the blues. Says Dr. Samuel Gershon of New York University's Medical School, who has done extensive research with the drug: "Manic-depression is what it should be used for, and that's not a common disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Maude's Mania | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

These jokes, plus 2,000 others, plus answers to questions most readers have never dared to consider, can be found in Gershon Legman's obsessive-and useful-collection of sexual and scatological humor. The first 811-page volume by the world's leading scholar on the subject was published in 1968 (Grove Press). Bound in nursery-blue covers, the book is suitable for mixed company. Volume II is clad in outhouse brown and concentrates on what Legman calls the "nasty nasties," divided under the headings Homosexuality, Prostitution, Sex and Money, Disease and Disgust, Castration, Dysphemism and Insults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Japes of Wrath | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

University of California in 1964-65. His principal subject was folklore, but his favorite activity seems to have been creating the Legend of Gershon Legman. "The kids would space out, disappear," he says. "I used to burn bonfires of pot in a living-room grate. The campus was rotten with drugs. At one stage, I got banned from speaking to the students because I ran two courses called Orgasm I and Orgasm II. They were about literature. If it had been Violence I and II, there would have been no problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Japes of Wrath | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

...Adds Shmuel Tamir, head of the right-wing Free Center faction: "This is not an agreement. It is unilateral withdrawal." The right-wing Gush Emunim movement is planning a giant anti-Kissinger demonstration when the Secretary of State takes his shuttle to Jerusalem. "Kissinger is a disaster," says Gershon Shafat. "His priorities are: one, Kissinger; two, the President; three, the U.S. Israel is nowhere among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Eleventh Shuttle: Is Peace at Hand? | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

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