Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spade-shaped rudder well aft, which gives such strong leverage that a twelve-year-old child has handled a Cal-40 in 40-knot winds. The bold tinkering gives the Cal-40 an almost prohibitively high rating of at least 31.1 for a 40-ft. boat. Theoretically she ought to be five feet longer, and she ought to lose. Thing is, she wins...
...random samplers sometimes have more influence over TV-series casting' than the producers, more editing control than the directors, and more say on the story line than the writers. Considering the crucial nature of their decisions, the sidewalk critics ought to be paid at least as much as the creative geniuses of the network programming departments. Actually, they do their work for free. Their only satisfaction comes from knowing that they, with the programming professionals and the 1,200 Nielsen families whose TV sets are monitored by the ratings service (see following story), share responsibility for the uniformly poor...
During last week's conversation at the Lamars', for example, Hostess Mary Lamar, a Catholic mother of seven, suggested that at one of their meetings the group ought to visit the Catholic church across the street. Presbyterian Bettie Phillips promptly suggested that they also visit her church. "You'd probably be surprised, Mary," she said, "that we have the same kind of symbolism you have...
...intending to be, always controlled and never overdone. Sommer's handling of the scene where he reads the forged letter, which he reads the forged letter, which he amusingly first employs as a fan, works admirably except that, when he quotes, "If this fall into thy hand, revolve," he ought to spin around in ridiculous compliance. He makes the yellow-stockings scene quite memorable, especially with the bright red cross-garters and their ludicrous gold tassels...
Patricia Peardon makes a beautiful Olivia, though she is not at ease with her lines; and the veils she and her retinue wear when Viola-Cesario first visits her ought to be far less transparent. Elizabeth Parrish needs to invest the part of Olivia's maid Maria with more vivacity. Fabian, her male counterpart, fails in the hands of Julian Miller to leave much of any impression...