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This yoga position, called "Reintegration," is recommended by a new sort of yogi. Not only a Westerner but a Benedictine monk, Father J.M. Dechanet found in yoga a valuable approach to Christian prayer and practice. Last week his book, Christian Yoga (Harper; $3.75), was on U.S. bookstands, complete with nihil obstat and imprimatur. Father Dechanet, 54, now prior of the Monastery of Saint-Benoit at Kansenia in the new Congo republic, has already found a following for his ideas in France among Christians who admire the physical and psychological disciplines of the East without accepting its negative and impersonal theology...
...Tripartite Man. Benedictine Yogi Dechanet has no use for such Western Orientalists as Jean Herbert, who has written: "Nothing is simpler than to supply Western Christian names in place of Hindu in the treatises on yoga technique." Dechanet is also on guard against the danger that the practice of yoga turns him toward "the Self, the It, the Absolute, the Wholly-One, the vague 'Ungraspable' of Hindu mystics" instead of toward "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the living God, my Creator and Father." What Dechanet set out to do when he first began to practice yoga...
Though the Christian yogi does not appear to be different from other men, "a trained eye may be able to recognize him by his gait, bearing, gestures or reserve." There is a seal on everything he does because he shuns habit and auto matic behavior-he is present with his whole being in whatever he is doing. The Christian yogi knows that he has gradually made his body into a faithful servant. "You order it (and it obeys) to help you to practise fully even virtues as great as faith, hope and Christian charity...
...Everybody's happy the Times finally made up its mind about a drama critic," wrote the New York Daily News's Broadway columnist, Robert Sylvester. "Now Yogi Berra and Toots Shor can relax...
...months since veteran Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson announced his retirement (TIME, Dec. 28), the question of a successor became one of New York's favorite guessing games-and indeed it did sometimes seem as though Yogi Berra had a chance. But last week the mantle fell on Howard Taubman, 52, a first-rate reporter as well as the Times's music critic for the past five years, who thus takes over the most prestigious aisle job in the press world...