Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Knight boy, you been misled. You been listenin' to that damn communist over there, but boy you don't know what he got in the back of his mind. You ought to be proud of your race. You ought to be ashamed, messing around with this integration trash...
...difficult to argue with this position, since whether or not Castro ought to be "brought down" has passed from there realm of those things we know through reason to that of those we know through faith. Consistency, in any event, has never been the greatest virtue of Kennedy's Cuban policies...
...state that it is simply untrue to say that the only jobs available to Negroes working in the garment district of New York, are "... as janitors, and pushing garment racks around." If this observation is the result of walking around that area of New York, then the observers also ought to go inside the buildings. Negroes (and Puerto Ricans) are a large and increasing proportion of the garment industry's working force...
Despite Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu's reported assertions that the United States has no right to terminate aid to her country, the $500 million annual bounty ought to be ended and American forces withdrawn unless she and her relatives are reformed or replaced. Continued U.S. aid under present conditions virtually assures complicity in a major calamity. Predictions that the present Diem government will conquer the Vietcong guerrillas are fantasy; hopes for anything better than defeat are generously optimistic...
This Advocate runs to better than ninety pages and includes nineteen different authors, among them several professionals: Brother Antoninus, William Burroughs, and Norman Mailer. Their names may sell copies and most the magazine's prestige, but The Advocate is--or ought to be--Harvard's literary magazine, not a rough draft of The New Yorker. This issue is good enough to stand by itself, without professionals...