Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these essays, the low-lying grey haze of section-man prose completely obscures the rich English literary landscape that lies somewhere below. Whatever effect Brower may predict "Literature X" will have on students, the essays in this volume--explicitly intended to demonstrate his ideas on teaching literature--ought to send him scurrying back to the old drawing board to plan a little re-tooling. The dullness of so many of these essays suggests, among other things, that any English department which shares Brower's concern for giving undergraduates what he calls the "life-time reading habit" (and what more important...
...Government's trustbusters, criticized the Administration's penchant for becoming involved in so many collective-bargaining disputes and its habit of making too many public pronouncements about the economy. Kennedy was pleased with the luncheon dialogue, and both he and the businessmen agreed that there ought to be similar get-togethers in the future...
...most controversial organizations in Government. The controversy is over the bureau's insistence, in its relentless and efficient pursuit of narcotics pushers and lawbreaking addicts, that narcotics is chiefly a law-enforcement problem-a view often criticized by doctors and others who believe that addicts ought to be treated as patients instead of criminals...
...tiny cell, cluttered with books and manuscripts, he writes poetry, spices his correspondence with quotes from Nietzsche and William Blake. He has just completed his first novel, Burn, Killer, Burn, to be published, at his request, after his fate has been decided, is hopefully working on his second. "One ought to be ashamed to die," he says, "until he has contributed something in justification of his living...
...reputation as a kind of Connecticut Kierkegaard. Writing in the July issue of Theology Today, Berger argues that the seminaries have become so concerned with trying to provide for the short-term institutional needs of the church that they are in danger of forgetting what a Protestant minister really ought to be: first and foremost, a theological scholar...