Word: ramsey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ramsey Clark, then Attorney General, appointed an independent panel of four professors of medicine to study the autopsy materials. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller's Commission on CIA Activities within the U.S. selected another panel of five physicians to do the same thing last spring. All of the experts on both panels concluded that Kennedy had been struck from above and behind by two shots...
...least once in recent history, moreover, revelations of Cabinet discussions had brought down a Labour Prime Minister. In 1923 the first Labour Cabinet in Britain's history attempted to quash the prosecution of a communist for incitement to rebel. Ramsey MacDonald, who was Prime Minister at the time, claimed that he had not been consulted in the matter and had not acquiesced in the decision. This outraged the professional civil servants who play a much more important role in Whitehall than in Washington. The Cabinet Secretary circulated a memo around government offices in which MacDonald's assertion...
...surprisingly, has come out against any court ruling in their favor. Ethicist Thomas C. Oden of New Jersey's Drew University is concerned mainly about establishing a precedent that could weaken the legal barriers against all kinds of euthanasia. That concern is discounted, however, by fellow Methodist Paul Ramsey of Princeton University, author of The Patient as Person (Yale University Press). Says Ramsey: "Everybody has reason to fear the onset of euthanasia, but it doesn't seem to me that a carefully drawn court opinion would be the edge of the wedge toward active killing of terminal patients...
...Ramsey and others have noted, death is a dread enemy to Christians, but it is not ultimately evil. In John Donne's words, "One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,/ And death shall be no more, death thou shalt...
...widely shared causes go neglected but beckon urgently again: hunger, political reform, environmental issues, inequalities and injustices, economic traumas. The "decline of absolutes" itself is often merely the result of pluralism. "How shall we sing the Lord's song in a pluralistic land?" asked Ethicist Paul Ramsey. Pluralism, the sense that "any number can play," whether in religion or ways of life, will not go away. Father John Courtney Murray called it "the human condition." Every day in every way we are aware that "your" and "my" absolutes sometimes clash. Antiabortionists and pro-abortionists are both sincerely...