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...DEATH was the omega of that experience. If he hadn't died it would have been like everything else in life, it just would have faded away. That chapter of my life was notable in that it was very enjoyable, I was very involved, and it had a very definite...
...Faubourg-St.-Honoré, the stylishness of Rome's Via Condotti or the hustling excitement of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. But the very rich find most of the store names cozy and familiar: Courrèges, Fred Joaillier, Gucci, Hermes. Bally, Céline, Ted Lapidus, Bilari, Nazareno Gabrielli, Battaglia, Mille Chemises, Omega, Saint-Germain, Pierre Deux and Lothars of Paris. Others are of questionable vintage: Giorgio, Mr. Guy, even a Jerry Magnin store that has the temerity to put sale soccer shoes in its window. In all, 60 stores along 2½ blocks of Rodeo Drive rang up sales of $200 million last...
...Omega Point. The Jesuit priest-scientist's following may expand with the publication of Teilhard (Doubleday, 360 pages, $10), the first full-scale biography of him in English in a decade. The book, by Freelance Writers (and sisters) Mary and Ellen Lukas, is not the full-dress exposition of Teilhard's thought that English Actor-Author Robert Speaight achieved in his 1967 Life of Teilhard de Chardin. The Lukases' reportage tells of the man behind the legend, providing much new material culled from ten years of interviewing Teilhard's friends and acquaintances...
...spiritual reality that suffused all matter (man and animals included) and had evolved into a "noosphere"-his term for a layer of human awareness that enveloped the earth like some psychic biosphere. As this envelopment progressed, Teilhard believed, man would eventually transcend his individualism and converge at the "Omega Point" with the Omega -God. Instead of God's creation at the beginning of time, Teilhard emphasized instead his ongoing and future creative activity. To orthodox critics, this vision destroyed the distinction between man and nature, and veered perilously close to pantheism...
...aberrations, meteorologists have traced Europe's grueling hot spell to two strong high-pressure zones, one centered over the Azores, the other just northeast of Iceland. For some unknown reason, the two came together to create the "Azores bridge." This in turn formed what weather experts called the "omega block," a high-pressure barricade that prevented the normal clockwise movement of damp air from the Atlantic to Europe, a flow that usually assumes a vast omega (Ω) shape. Australian meteorologists have attributed the drought to the unexplained absence of the rain-bearing westerly winds that usually sweep across...