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...backing. The goal was education. The commission would do a lot of research and write books and teaching materials to put some substance behind the Disney-like productions the government was sure to come up with. Rifkin seemed like just the man for the job--a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, a degree holder in economics from the Wharton School of Finance at Penn, former coordinator of the Citizens Commission Inquiry into U.S. War Crimes in Vietnam, a one-time VISTA volunteer, an anti-war activist and a good writer to boot...
Moynihan, who received his doctorate from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, also served the Johnson and Kennedy administrations as the assistant secretary of Labor from...
...ethicists, only Episcopal Clergyman Joseph Fletcher of Situation Ethics fame justified unlimited experimentation on fetuses that face abortion, if the mother gives her consent. The traditional requirement of "informed consent" for experiments is a thorny one when the subject is a fetus. Ramsey, as well as Georgetown's Father Richard McCormick and Rabbi Seymour Siegel of Jewish Theological Seminary, pointed out that parents have been allowed to give consent for treatment of a child because they have the child's interests at heart. The consent of mothers who plan to have abortions is morally questionable...
...qualifying paragraph explaining why the idea is wrong, even though it might sound beguiling and contain an element of truth. The statement nowhere mentions the people who have promulgated the false theses, but the discussions at Hartford included references to Harvey Cox (The Secular City), Situation Ethicist Joseph Fletcher and Britain's Bishop John Robinson (Honest to God). As for the pervasiveness of the thinking exemplified in the theses, Jesuit Dulles thinks that the ideas are widespread in the Roman Catholic Church, particularly among popularizers of the late Teilhard de Chardin and "liberation theologians," who give the Bible...
...forum--a series on early screen classics--that made a political discussion of this political film awkward. The offer that film society leaders made to let a spokesman for the demonstrators speak before the showing was a good-faith attempt to ease differences--but as William J. Fletcher Jr. '76, a protest organizer, observed, "To go in front of an audience that is prepared for entertainment and to talk about politics would cause problems." The brief acknowledgement by a film society leader of the movie's blatantly racist content, presented before the uneventful Friday night showing, was insufficient to dispel...