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...explained that in traditional Vietnam the peasant believed that his father, ancestors and emperor exercised great mystical powers over events. After the French consolidated their control over the country, they replaced the emperor at Hue as the omnipotent father; this mystical sense of respectful awe enabled the French to transform Vietnamese society without serious opposition. When Ho Chi Minh and a small Viet Minh contingent marched into Hanoi unopposed on August 19, 1945, French omnipotence was undermined; the mandate of heaven now descended upon the revolutionaries, and peasants flocked into the Viet Minh. Fewer than 11,00 French had sufficed...
...help men become "conscious collaborators" in their evolution, Aurobindo taught his own humanistic version of yoga. While traditional yoga disciples strive to free the spirit from the body's domination, Aurobindo sought to transform earthly existence by bringing the divine down into it. Aurobindo's vision of a "supramental" human consciousness has often been compared to Teilhard de Chardin's hopes for an ever-increasing spiritualization of man and his world. "I saw them cross the twilight of an age," Aurobindo wrote in his 24,000-line epic poem Savitri, "the sun-eyed children of a marvelous...
...family was in need of money) but would take jobs as dishwashers or bellhops while studying in Europe or the U.S. Many of these young intellectuals-the emerging elite of the Arab world-returned home imbued if not exactly with the Protestant work ethic then with a determination to transform the stratified societies from which they came...
...World inspires a sense of déjà vu, it is no accident. Cousins edited the original Saturday Review for 31 years, then quit in 1971 when the new owners, John Veronis and Nicolas Charney, announced plans to transform SR into four special-interest monthlies. Cousins then founded World, an earnest and rather bland biweekly. After the Charney-Veronis venture collapsed last spring, Cousins bought back the SR name and subscription list. So instead of competing with the new SR, Cousins' World ended up absorbing...
BONNIE RAITT AND JACKSON BROWNE. Bonnie Raitt dropped out of Radcliffe for records and roadtrips, and has become one of the finest and most versatile rock and blues singers around. She handles six-string, National Steel, and bottleneck guitars with equal grace. She can take even flimsy material and transform it into rousing, gutsy blues...