Word: omega
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Others see posthumous salvation in terms of some kind of cosmic evolution toward perfection. According to the late Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, man is evolving toward an "Omega point," or ultimate encounter with God. To Methodist Schilling, the phenomenon involves "the ongoing life of the whole person, not of the body in the physical sense, but of something equivalent to what a body is, a notion of renewal rather than mere survival, in ways that we cannot know. It is a matter of faith, but I think a reasonable and intelligent faith...
...plot, characteristically Hawksian, tells of the rough-and-ready guys who race stock cars and their turned-on track followers who cry, cheer and deliver romantic ultimatums that any dewy-eyed dropout might treasure. Scene after scene, brand names-Ford, Omega, Honda, Revell, Firestone, Grey-Rock brake linings-are dragged in like spare parts, as if to guarantee the authenticity of all that happens between location shots of screeching wheels and fiery crashes. "That was a close one . . . oh-oh, there's another one!" cries the agitated track announcer, valiantly promoting the idea that death lurks at every curve...
...this day at least four fraternities - Sigma Chi, Phi Gamma Delta, Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Delta Theta - either have switched to constitutional euphemisms or have reached unwritten "gentlemen's agreements" that require members to be "socially acceptable" to all other members. A member pledged in California, for example, must not be likely to offend a member in Alabama. A fifth, Sigma Nu, still retains a "whites only" clause, but has permitted chapters, if pressured by college officials, to request special dispensation to admit Negroes. Sigma Chi requires national approval of every member by a screening committee supplied with...
...hell night" initiation last April for the Omega Gamma Delta fraternity of Oceanside High School on Long Island. Not surprisingly, the bomb had a predictable effect on Ninth-Grader Michael Kalogris, then 14. He collapsed with what doctors at first feared was a ruptured spleen...
...thinkers, an Aquinas of the atomic era. For Teilhard was not only a scientist who studied the world's past. He was also a philosopher-mystic who saw man evolving toward the ultimate encounter with what Teilhard, ever groping for new ways to express ancient truth, called the "Omega point." Other men have called...