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...Stratford, Connecticut Shakespeare Festival that Carnovsky, under Allen Fletcher's direction, first played Lear. Since that time Carnovsky's power in the role has steadily increased. We can only wish him many happy Lears to come...
...FLETCHER BENTON, 34, sees mobile art as the way of the future. "Kineticists are space-age artists," says the San Franciscan, and points to the small, spiky steel ball called Explorer I, the U.S.'s first orbital satellite, as an example of esthetic motion. "There's no reason to believe a living room could not be a kinetic experience," he says. "On a dark, rainy day, the walls would turn bright and cheery. We're the pioneers, but think of the artists growing up today. They will know about computers, programming and electronics. Think of what they...
Situation ethics does admit to one absolute: love. In any moral decision, Fletcher argues, the key question is: "What does God's love demand of me in this particular situation?" By stressing the demand of love, situation ethics is at once more lenient and more stringent than law morality. It can command hard decisions as well as easy ones-acceptance of martyrdom, for example, when law morality would permit surrender or compromise. It can also say that certain acts are immoral which law ethics would consider tech nically valid. To the situationist, says Fletcher, "even a transient sex liaison...
...play the game." Princeton's Paul Ramsey argues that traditional Christian moral principles are authoritative and that "how we do what we do is as important as our goals." In 1956 the Holy Office condemned situation ethics for Roman Catholics as an illicit brand of subjectivism. Attacking Fletcher's presentation in Commonweal, Dominican Theologian Herbert McCabe argues that the new morality has no criteria to distinguish love from what is really self-interest. "How do you know that what you are doing is loving?" he asks. McCabe also charges that situationism fails to consider that man is always...
...Fletcher argues that his approach is applicable to social policy and is no different from that of Jesus, who rejected the complexities of Jewish law and reduced his own ethical teaching to a twofold command to love God and neighbor. Situationism, claims Fletcher, is also implicit in the thought of such formative Christian thinkers as Augustine ("Love with care and then what you will, do") and Luther, who stated: "When the law impels one against love, it should no longer be a law." He feels that situationism, new or old, "is a reflection in the field of ethics...