Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neighborhood pub or midtown restaurant. The brunch bunch at Manhattan's Delmonico's has increased 150% in the three years since the hotel instituted the custom. Because it is located in the middle of the Rockefeller Center office complex, Irish-style Charley O's ought logically to be deserted on Sunday; instead, as many as 230 people swarm in for brunch-and on St. Patrick's Day, the crowd included Bobby and Ethel...
...musicians. He derives his authority from the simple fact that he can play better than anyone else in the orchestra, sets the standard that the rest of the players are expected to live up to. He plays all the important violin solos in an orchestral piece, and, indeed, ought to be so familiar with the literature that he can substitute at the last minute for an absent violin soloist...
...Bunting certainly ought to have foreseen the deficit last Spring, before girls contracted for rooms off-campus with her blithe assurance that they would eat their breakfasts where they lived. Now many girls never eat the dorm breakfasts they have paid for and are, in addition, shelling out money--more than $65--for their own supplies...
Members were divided on whether they ought to organize the seminar around Banfield's lecture topics, but most felt it was inevitable...
...Life of One's Own. A basic thrust of a college education ought to be toward helping students to develop "a life of one's own-a sense of self." Instead, says Eble, "every major movement in higher education seems to be away from the kind of confrontation, contemplation and discipline necessary to help a student shape himself." He sympathizes with students who react against the impersonal university by turning to social action but warns that "a commitment to self" must precede a "commitment that takes them to the barricades." What students need are more free hours...