Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roth is by no means a shoddy craftsman, but he ought not to be read too critically. He communicates indirectly, and if we focus on apparent awkwardness we miss the point. He makes us keep our distance, yet be involves us in his tale more fully that the sharpest plot-maker. The hideous din of a guilty thought, the whirling of noise and action about a point in time, a sense of inexplicable release--all these Roth evokes with mysterious ease. Call It Sleep is a quiet masterpiece that grows in the mind even after one puts it down...
...like this business of signing contracts while you're still playing in college, and I don't like this business of rushing over to the sidelines after a bowl game and signing up, either. A boy can play pro football if he wants to, but he ought to keep these business deals separate from college athletics...
...continues to let things drift, said Lippmann, "I am inclined to think that American intervention will end, not with a bang but with a whimper. We ought to try for something better than that." Lippmann's "something better" called for nothing less than U.S. withdrawal, not only from Viet Nam. but from all of the Asian mainland. "It will be done as part of some much larger and more elaborate diplomatic proposal and action-one directed at something far bigger than South Viet Nam-at an Asian settlement from Siberia to the Himalayas, from the Mekong to the Yalu...
Neither a sentimental showman nor a tightwad, he has shown that Hollywood can still make competent movies that are bids for quality within their own form and stay in the black, and that, as he puts it, "if you are going to manufacture anything, you ought to have the finest plant and facilities." But the heavy financial investments needed to create such an entity would be for nought without a special flair for sensing what is acceptable to the public-for that, ultimately, accounts for success in the entertainment world. This Lew Wasser man has to a unique degree...
...only does everyone talk sex; everyone does something about it. That alone might prove refreshing in a Hollywood farce, except that Wilder isn't celebrating sex as a gloriously human temptation; he is exploiting it as a commodity -and he wears a lascivious grin where his satirical smile ought to be. The result, spelled out in dialogue that sounds like a series of gamy punch lines, is one of the longest traveling-salesman stories ever committed to film. Like all dirty jokes, it will probably evoke a shock wave of self-conscious laughter and pass swiftly into oblivion...