Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Romantic Lead"), perhaps for good reason, but with--as some weary old cur might say in the Trib--exceedingly mixed results. The players therefore have burdensome problems of pace and timing thrust on their somewhat frail shoulders, which either Mr. Morey or his director (was there a director?) ought to have lightened. Lovely Susan Schwartz as the Romantic Lead struggles womanfully but neither she nor Mr. Morey (who plays her opposite number--that is, Her Opposite Number) makes out very well...
Especially in the House of Representatives, long a sacred cow pasture, the prospects for such substantial changes as these are not nearly as optimistic as they ought to be. The legislature's Republican caucus would not be altogether gratified by the enactment of bills which might prove an effective cure-all for Gov. Peabody's ailing prestige...
...Others includes Eric Martin, who I am conscious of not liking nearly so well as I ought to. Mr. Martin, an inventive slave, is busier than anybody else in showing how deucedly comic he is, and no doubt that's the way Roman comedy really was played; I, however, was horribly enervated by it. It also includes Lynn Milgrim, a glorious courtesan in net stockings and high heels, and Kendra Stearns, her maid, who assumes a pleasantly nearsighted stare every time she is confronted with an unpleasant situation...
...report's release, has persisted in ensuring that the public may hear only nonsense. He has even deliberately closed the Foreign Affairs Committee hearings on specific countries, for fear that his advice to cut appropriations to (perhaps) Indonesia will complicate the business of the U.S. Embassy in Djakarta. Somebody ought to point out to the general that the near certainty of his advice being taken will eventually complicate things a good deal more than a public hearing ever could; if his object was to make life easy for the diplomatic corps he should have thought of it long...
...Crimson's EITL record is now 3-0, and the team ought to beat both Brown and Cornell this week for two more League wins...