Word: yogis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Athletic Harvard men did calisthentics--Yogi type-- on the banks of the Charles. Tennis courts were crowded with the exhuberantly healthy. A few traipsed off to the rock-strewn shores of Walden Pond or the flesh-strewn beaches of Revere...
...faith and mind were approached in a very different way in two other books, The Yogi and the Commissar (TIME, June 4) by Arthur Koestler, brilliant ex-Communist novelist (Darkness at Noon), and The Perennial Philosophy (TIME, Oct. 1) by Novelist Aldous Huxley (Antic Hay, Brave New World). Koestler's book was a series of essays; its theme: modern man is caught between the choice of a philosophy of action (The Commissar) and a philosophy of quietism (The Yogi). Man's hope: a synthesis of the two. Author Koestler was more optimistic than hopeful...
...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...