Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some performers resisted the temptation to mug and punch their lines home for easy laughs. Roger Dunwell, as the principal narrator (a role Thomas took when the play premiered in New York) both understood his part and spoke it clearly; if he has conquered opening-night nervousness, his reading ought to set a standard for the rest of the cast. Patrick Diehl, a splendid basso, made the lusting quack, Mr. Waldo, seem a lovable rogue. And Mary Moss, playing a variety of loose women, could hardly have been improved upon (her singing was off-key, but there again, one suspects...
Also deserving of praise are Mario Mitchell (a girl), who played a brace of coy maidens without cloying; Rick Ashton, a minor player with a fine sense of timing; and Sandra Robertson, whose self-control kept several scenes from running off the track. For completeness' sake I suppose I ought to add that two or three of the remaining actors were awful...
...resembles a giant record turntable, and since the actors burst into song every few minutes, it sometimes seems as if an invisible disk jockey were directing the play. The best tune, The Impossible Dream, could be transferred intact to Skyscraper, which suggests the show's basic defect. It ought to be 31 centuries distant from Broadway instead of merely 40 blocks away...
...pastor for the past 15 years of St. Mark's Presbyterian Church in the city of Lomita in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. "Repeatedly, the Pope is held responsible for encouraging large families among Roman Catholics. It is 'said that the Chinese and the people of India ought to put the lid on their burgeoning populations." Then Durham, the father of four, preached a modest proposal for Presbyterians...
...delivering a popular speech in which he praised not only the virtues of hard work but its rewards as well. "To secure wealth is an honorable ambition," he intoned, "and is one greattest of a person's usefulness to others. Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!" Conwell repeated the speech before 6,000 audiences, earned $8,000,000 in fees. He should have lived to see the U.S. of 1965. In no other country of the world...