Word: yogi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those Arkansas Ozark daddies didn't invent hunkering. The yogi did, centuries ago. They refer to the posture as utkea sana...
...with the heartbeats of a nation in decay." Among the heartbeatniks: Bummy Car-well (Larry Hagman), incipient novelist ("I'm a writer-I'm out there on the periphery handling unexploited materials"); Danny (Thomas Aldredge), a marijuana-fueled poet who mumbles about the "crypto-neo-reactionaries"; and Yogi (Del Close), a stubble-bearded anti-homosexual crusader who gets most of the show's laughs...
...Simply precious," I told her. "By the by, I understand you've taken up yogi...
...Yeah, man, I know; the Buddha kick. I remember I was on it for two weeks when I saw the wild Frisco nights from my Chinatown pad. Man, that was some living; creeping through the back alleys at night, yogi parties, the red lights of the east end, the drowning sounds of Powell Street in the afternoon, and in the early evening as the sun set on the bay the soft odors of won-ton soup drifting up through the air vents. Crazy! But take my advice, and give up the Oriental bit, and go domestic. Contemplation, inward communion...
...Boston Red Sox Slugger (35 home runs, 122 runs batted in) Jackie Jensen was voted the American League's Most Valuable Player, became the first player on a non-pennant winner to win the award since Yogi Berra did it in 1954. Runner-up: Yankee Pitcher Bob Turley.