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There are more than accidental similarities between the Cao Dai and various popular movements in America such as Divine Light, the Jesus movement, and the followers of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the mentor of meditation. Both the Cao Dai and the American gurus are initially arresting because they are so incongruous: the images of Vietnamese civil servants worshipping Victor Hugo and young people from America's suburbs genuflecting before a 15-year-old Indian Guru are strangely symmetrical. But the similarities run much deeper than this curious congruence of the odd: the popularity of both the Cao Dai in Vietnam...
...metaphysics. Vietnamese peasants were distraught in the 1930s not because they wondered if Victor Hugo was a deity, but because French colonialism was destroying their traditional society. American young people today are not confused because they find it difficult to choose between the merits of the Guru and the Yogi, but because this country is rocked by a deep structural and ideological crisis, a crisis for which no group, gurus or socialists, have provided a reasonable explanation...
...along the way that must have seemed fairly mountainous in size. They were twelve games back in July and as much as three and a half back with as little as ten days left to play. There were rumblings when the Mets were floundering in last place that manager Yogi Berra would be axed, perhaps before the end of the season. So, in other words, the Mets are so much of a miracle this year that even they must be asking themselves what they are doing in the Series...
Once, when told that a Jew had been elected lord mayor of Dublin, so the sto ry goes, baseball's unique Yogi Berra replied: "Only in America could such a thing happen." Well, something equally wondrous did happen in America last week: a black was named chairman of the Southern Governors' Conference...
...surveyed a scene of jubilation in the New York Met clubhouse one night last week, Manager Yogi Berra felt it necessary to caution his players about overconfidence. "The ball," he warned, "can take funny bounces." Yogi should know. As recently as Aug. 30, the woebegone Mets were languishing in last place in the National League's East Division and the only question was how soon Berra would be fired. Last week, several funny bounces and one winning streak later, the resuscitated New Yorkers were locked in a do-or-die struggle for first place with the Pittsburgh Pirates...