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Playing the Game. Situation ethics has been sharply attacked by Protestants and Roman Catholics alike. President David Hubbard of California's Fuller Theological Seminary complains that "we can talk ourselves into a lot of things in the name of love unless we have some ground rules to 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...
...granny is not a grandmother but a garment: a dress that covers the wearer from neck to ankle, a kind of nipped-in Mother Hubbard gussied up with Victorian furbelows and bows. Real-life grannies would not be caught dead in one: grannies are only for girls...
...shadow of Sartre's celebrity, Mile, de Beauvoir found a derivative celebrity of her own. She was the Mother Hubbard of existentialism, a clock in a refrigerator, a cerebral loan of Arc-to cite some of the appellations, largely invidious, that were flung at her during her prime. Periodically, she issued books, all of them painstakingly analytical and exhaustingly long. The Second Sex, a dizzy blend of pedagogy, logic, emotion, prejudice and just plain talk about woman's discontented estate, became a classic. The Mandarins, her roman á clef of life with Sartre, Camus and their intellectual confraternity...
...rather reluctantly. Months ago, the National Geographic Society asked then Attorney General Bobby and his brother, Massachusetts' Senator Teddy Kennedy, to join in an assault on Mount Kennedy, a 14,000-ft. peak that had never been climbed. Part of the St. Elias Range, it was called East Hubbard* until the Canadian government renamed it in honor of the late President. Both Teddy and Bobby agreed to join the expedition, but then Teddy suffered a broken back in an airplane crash and had to withdraw...
...After Gardiner Greene Hubbard (1822-1897), first president of the National Geographic Society...