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...People's Action Party last month managed to win 13 out of 32 seats in Singapore's first municipal elections, while Lim Yew Hock's Labor Front Party could salvage only four. This victory enabled the P.A.P. to install a Malacca-born, Australian-educated Chinese named Ong Eng Guan as mayor. P.A.P. Boss Lee Kuan Yew continues to insist loudly that his party is non-"Communist. But Mayor Ong is less committal. Asked if he thought Singapore was threatened by Communism, Ong replied: "I can't answer that because the committee would not like...
...Middle Ages and the Age of Faith, sighs many a modern Catholic, when the undivided Church was the warp and the woof of daily life, when men and not machines were the makers and doers. Nonsense, said the Rev. Walter J. Ong, S.J. last week to the 14th annual Spring Symposium of the Catholic Renascence Society in Manhattan. Today, according to Father Ong, an assistant professor of English at St. Louis University, is more an Age of Faith than the 13th century ever...
...think of a time when most of the human race had no contact whatsoever with the Church's teaching as a genuinely 'Catholic' age," said Jesuit Ong, "is not only parochial, but definitely scandalous. It suggests that Christ came to save not the human race but one's own family." Only Europe was Catholic in the so-called Age of Faith; today there are Catholics everywhere in the world...
...world lives in an evolving universe, says Ong, in which geological ages, over the course of some 5 billion years, follow "one after the other in a mysterious, but unmistakably patterned, sequence." In this evolution of the earth from "brute nature" toward more and more "homanization," technology is the latest phase. Thus any idea that technology is opposed to humanism is "unreal." On the contrary, technology "is a great and inspiring human creation." Instead of fighting technology, Christians should join it. "The cause of humanism is served by dealing with reality, not by denouncing...
...rumored to have been awarded the anchor position because "she got to more rehearsals later than anybody else." After she was seated, the orchestra struck up the first of the cotillion figures, the Coming-Out Waltz (original music and lyrics by Virginia Scarlett, daughter of Mrs. Eugene Ong, co-chairman of the ball). The lyrics: We're coming out tonight We're having our fling Debs dressed in yards of white Waltzing we sing 'cause Beaux flock around tonight Flowers are part of the scheme Tomorrow may be just another day But tonight we are part...