Word: ought
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Guide ought to know. He is Dr. Timothy Leary, former Harvard professor whose experiments with psychedelic drugs aroused such parental wrath that he was dropped from the faculty (TIME, March 29, 1963). Since then, Leary has struck out on a one-man crusade aimed at making LSD and pot as American as apple pie. He is also trying to found a new religion. Death of the Mind is billed as the "first public worship service of America's first indigenous religious movement," the League for Spiritual Discovery. (The initials spell...
...Broadway potboiler, Leary's new show ought to be socko box office, as Variety might put it, although nabes in the sticks will be better off running Tarzan instead. For acid heads and the impressionable, however, Leary provides all the right production values: religiose gimmicks, weirdo music, sexo fantasy, all boffo. Following a run of twelve weekly performances in Manhattan, Leary will open his show in California, which manages to be boffo, religioso, weirdo and sexo with or without LSD. The turn may not make psychedelic drug-taking and its kicks comprehensible to the average ticket buyer...
...knows better than President Johnson that his Administration's fight against inflation so far has been patchwork. Last week, announcing the latest in a series of anti-inflation moves, the President rather ruefully told newsmen: "As we say down on the farm, 'maybe we ought to try to get by with some baling wire, patch things up,' to get by during this particular period, when there is such pressure on our economy...
That figure now stands at $4.5 billion, and a few cost-conscious Congressmen insist that the U.S., rather than pay that price, ought to withdraw entirely from the SST race. Asks Wisconsin's Demo cratic Senator William Proxmire: "Is this the time to spend federal money on this jet-set frill...
...ought to be more fun than watching the lopsided score pile...