Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though it must prepare for the eventuality of the Belt, the City does not have to abandon all opposition to the highway. The Federal Bureau of Roads has promised a full-scale review of the project; the first thing Cambridge ought to do is ask Washington to conduct an independent study rather than rely on the State Department of Public Works for information in the project's review...
...League. Therefore, the book, a real cocktail party conversation piece, will end up on innumerable coffee tables. But it should be kept within the family. The outside world should never find out that Harvard College didn't teach its distinguished graduates everything they know. The Advocate Centennial Anthology ought only to be sold sub rosa during Commencement Week...
...annual salary of $8,100 ought to sound reasonably attractive to a young fellow fresh out of college. But not to University of California Senior Al Hartman, 22, who graduates in June with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and has already been offered an $8,100 job by General Electric, which also promised to pay his tuition toward a master's degree. Hartman in tends to turn G.E. down, figuring that he can get as much as $9,000 from some other company - hopefully, one doing defense work that can promise a "critical capabilities" draft deferment...
Applying all this background to the present moment, I suggest we should not get too excited over Peking's vast blueprints for the onward course of the Maoist revolution. Some American commentators who really ought to know better have over-reacted to the visionary blueprint of world revolution put out by Lin Piao last Sep- tember in Peking (about the strangling of the world's advanced countries or "cities" from the underdeveloped countries or "countryside.") This was, I think, a re-assertion of faith, that the Chinese Communists own parochial example of rural-based revolution is the model...
...more than Chairman Mao is actually a resurrected Son of Heaven in a blue boiler suit. But I don't believe we can escape our historical heritage entirely, any more than he can. We have been part and parcel of the long-term Western approach to East Asia and ought to see ourselves in that perspective, just as any view of our China policy has to include a perspective on our program in Vietnam...