Word: ought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's attitude has traditionally been that "coaches ought to coach," not spend the off-season tracking down promising high school stars. Sometimes the line gets rather slim--when Alumni Schools and Scholarship Committees hold special functions for candidates and coaches, for instance. The most flagrant violations--appointments with a boy's parents, special recruiting at a high school--these have been outlawed at Harvard...
...Many a devout reader may find this note jarringly impious and pessimistic. Kazantzakis is neither. Like Zorba, Odysseus exults in life, and even during his lowest moments he is seldom without gusto. There are times when he thinks he is better than God, times when he thinks that man ought to help God rather than the other way around. He never accepts defeat...
...claimed that more emphasis should be placed on science in this type of program, and, moreover, that the function of such a plan ought to be performed by the high schools, two assertions which occasion subsequent discussion...
...hysteria about what can be done in the field of psychological persuasion" ought to be dispelled along with the apprehension of a "1984 society twenty years early," Raymond A. Bauer, Ford Foundation Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of Business Administration, said last night...
...painted in Paris a few hundred works of purity, warmth and glamour. Almost all the pictures represented people he loved, but with rubicund flesh, swan necks outstretched, ski-jump noses and sightless, slanting eyes. They were men and women molded to a very private vision of how humans ought to look, a vision that only Modigliani's power as a designer could put across and make seem beautiful. All his control was reserved for art; in life he had none...