Word: ong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Father Walter Ong, S.J., will conduct a seminar on "The Place of St. Thomas More in English Literature" in Room 601 in Lamont Library at 8:30 p.m. tonight. This is the first in a series of seminars intended to present specialized aspects of Catholic tradition and culture to Harvard audiences this year...
Socially, the President of the Philippines had his fill. In the U.S. for a five-day flying visit, President Elpidio ("Pidi-ong") Quirino was met at National Airport by Harry Truman and a 21-gun salute. He spent a night at Blair House, addressed the House and Senate, whirled through Washington cocktail parties into a ticker-tape welcome in New York, where he lunched with Cardinal Spellman and picked up an honorary doctorate from Fordham. Said he of steaming Manhattan: "The weather ... is very poor...
...grid Ksantel ong ong . . . What'd he say? . . . Mumbles says we've got to get rid of Kiss Antel right away." There was a knock on the door. With a reluctant sigh I put down my bound volume of Dick Tracy, muttered "Wait a minute," and tossed off the last swallow of a pre-season Tom and Jerry...
Nonsense, says Ong. Wonder Woman is only a female Superman, preaching "the cult of force, spiked, by means of her pretentiously scanty 'working' attire, with a little commercial sex. . . . When not in her outré 'working' clothes she habitually wears a suitcoat and tie among the jeweled guests at luncheon parties and at formal evening affairs...
...Walter Ong finds Wonder Woman sexy, but "this is not a healthy sex directed toward marriage and family life, but an antisocial sex, made as alluring as possible while its normal term in marriage is barred by the ground rules...