Word: ought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article "The Long Shadow of John Dewey" ought to be emblazoned on the walls of every academic institution cursed with the pseudoscientific, anti-intellectual invention of this age: the department of education. Having been educated in a school system of this otiose type, I now look forward to the day when I shall receive my B.A. degree from Texas University. Then I can satisfy myself that I have received the equivalent of a good high school education...
...upon my recent lecture analyzing the various ways in which eye diseases might affect an artist's use of form and color. As your readers have pointed out, the primary objection to any such mechanistic explanation is that, however distorted the individual's perception, subject and rendering ought to tally. Yet this self-correcting effect does not always seem to operate. Tests have shown that a circle, viewed through an astigmatic lens, will be seen and reproduced as an ellipse; further evidence can be found in the practice and comments of various artists known to have been astigmatic...
...committee, was to 1) write President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon; 2) write Congressmen, editors and commentators; 3) "organize a group" or work with existing groups "in your community." The point to make: the U.S.'s summer series of nuclear weapons tests at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific ought to be suspended right now. "Scientists warn," the committee warned, "that thousands of babies will be malformed because of tests to date . . . We must stop the contamination of the air, the milk children drink, the food...
...great moment of the opera is unquestionably the superb quartet which comes near the end, and is everything an operatic ensemble ought to be. Technically, it is well constructed, while the hilarity of the situation combines with the very lyric beauty of the music to produce a kind of exhilaration which can only come in a climax to an extremely fine set piece...
Memorial Church is not merely a building in the Yard, not merely a "non-sectarian" Protestant Church, whatever that might be. Memorial Church has become a symbol in the larger debate as to whether Harvard is, or ought to be, a Christian institution, and what role, if any, the President should play in promoting a religious' philosophy...