Word: yogi
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...contrast to Rilke, Frederic Prokosch relies on nothing but Prokosch. But on close examination, most readers will find Prokosch to be unreliable. An Austrian-American, instructor at Yale, Frederic Prokosch has written two novels (The Asiatics, The Seven Who Fled) which tickled occidental yogi-men. An able verbal fakir, Prokosch, by playing solemn tricks with the sounds of words, makes his poems bloom like a fakir's mango tree...
...appeared in only one minor picture. Last week he let it be known he had forsworn the cinema to study Hindu philosophy, had become converted to Yoga, was now anxious only to attain a state of complete mental & physical tranquillity. Said Yogiman Novarro; "I learned the breathing exercises of Yogi, and I thought deeply of the philosophies involved...
...Yogi-Man, it's no go Blavatsky, All we want is a bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi. For yokels: It's no go the Herring Board, it's no go the Bible, All we want is a packet of fags* when our hands are idle...
...Lawrentian humanism, with a dash more intellect, a dash less sex. In Brave New World (1932) he knocked Utopia down for another count of ten. The hero of Eyeless in Gaza (TIME, July 13. 1936) turned out to be a thoroughgoing pacifist, with a philosophy combining features of Yogi, Buddhism, other Oriental mysteries. After this last novel, it looked as if Huxley, saved himself, was now ready to save the world...
...copies of TIME have piled up, as I have been traveling, and am at the moment in Sydney, Australia. Hence the delay in taking up the letters in TIME, July 13, regarding the Yogi's trick...