Word: fletcherize
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...actor's playwright. Everybody gets a meaty part with lots of juicy speeches. The three old hands in the cast avail themselves fully of their dramatic opportunity. Louis Turenne heads up the company with his amusing and robust portrayal of the "superabundantly vital" and philosophic underwear manufacturer. Bramwell Fletcher follows closely behind as Lord Summerhays, the fiance's father, a charming old aristocrat still foolish and alive enough to suffer at the hands of an unfeeling young Hypatia...
...Fred Bergsten, 33, earned a Ph.D. in international economics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts and spent four years in the State Department before joining the National Security
Last week another call for death with dignity-one certain to provoke a sharp ethical debate-appeared in the new issue of the bimonthly journal The Humanist. Entitled "A Plea for Beneficent Euthanasia," it bears such diverse signatures as those of French Biologist Jacques Monod, Situation Ethicist Joseph Fletcher and CORE Founder James Farmer. The document recommends not only the "passive" euthanasia now widely advocated, but "active" euthanasia as well: direct action to speed the death of a dying patient-an act that is technically murder. (No country has yet legalized euthanasia, though in some nations a compassionate motive...
...doctrine is fuzzy, subject to disparate interpretations and all too easily perverted. But Graham is groping wildly in connecting situation ethics and the Watergate coverup. Says Theologian Joseph Fletcher, author of Situation Ethics: the New Morality: "It is a misinterpretation. Those involved in Watergate weren't conducting themselves according to situation ethics. They didn't weigh the moral options. Their one guiding principle was to win at any price. Graham knows or ought to know better...
Naples, who received his B.A. from West Point and was awarded an A.M. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1972, said he would prefer to work with the secretary of the Treasury...