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...YOGI AND THE COMMISSAR-Arthur Koestler-Macmillan...
Individualism v. Economic Law. The title of The Yogi and the Commissar, a collection of 16 essays, mostly on writing and politics, fits the book like a glove. For Koestler believes that every thinking man today is threatened or tempted by these two polar figures. On the extreme Left stands the Commissar-the superbly disciplined Communist who believes that the end justifies the means, and who has exchanged ethics, personal liberty and all irrational sentiments for a ruthless "pseudo-Communism" based on economic laws. On the extreme Right, in an "exotic hermitage," stands (or sits) the Yogi. He believes that...
...also be "treaties of friendship and mutual aid" which will lead the victim from "collaboration" to "vassalization" so discreetly that an opportune moment for Anglo-American objection will never come. The disillusioned liberal, faced by the advancing Commissar, is likely to turn helplessly to the passive resistance of the Yogi...
...Best of Each? Koestler's own preference, like that of most current prophets, is far less pungent and persuasive than his analysis. He has no wish to obliterate the teachings of the Yogi and the Commissar in toto; he is idealistic enough to hope that the best of each can be joined: a "synthesis of . . . the saint [and] the revolutionary." From the Yogi he would take the values of contemplation, the "inner voice," and reject the "sinning by omission," the passivity that invites rape. From the Commissar he would take a planned, state-controlled economy ("the inevitable next step...
...inner U.S. chess circles Koltanowski is known as "Kolty the Yogi." This dates back to an exhibition in Richmond, Va., when a socialite female kibitzer insisted, over his protests, that he must be a yogi to possess such powers of concentration. "I suppose I have an auditory memory," explains Koltanowski. "It is as though I have a gramophone record in the back of my head. I record the moves on it. If I forget, I play the record over...