Word: ought
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...telephone number down in a dark booth while groping for a pencil, searching in an obsolete phone book and gasping for breath. And all this in the name of efficiency ! Engineers have a terrible intellectual weakness. 'If it fits the machine,' they say, 'then it ought to fit people.' This is something that bothers me very much: absentmindedness about people...
...Symphony Orchestra is a local group of some 64 people who cleverly describe themselves as "semi-professional" musicians. This is clever because no one, least of all a critic, knows just what a "semi-professional" musician is, and therefore can have no reasonable idea of just how good one ought to be. For this reason most critics will be nice, because even a music critic would rather appear nice than look confused. And so it goes...
...thing, Mr. Kazin ought to find himself a new editor--if he has an old editor. This collection appears to have been put together directly from the magazines and reviews in which the pieces first appeared. A particularly annoying, if minor evidence of this is the repetition in one essay after another of the same brief quotations and marginal illustrative remarks. Thus, for example, Kazin complains no less than three times in three consecutive essays about Kinsey's statistical approach to American sexual experience; he refers to Emerson's famous lecture series on capital-C "Culture" to make the same...
There's also, on the "Menu of Foreign Intrigue," Polish Kilbasi, (50 cents). Caviar and Devilled Egg (50 cents), and what is billed as an "Authentic Chop Suey Roll" (55 cents) -- a dish which Milty ought to know it itself about as "Authentic" as Dr. Fred Schwarz's Christian Crusade. And this is not to mention, of course, the Kishke (15 cents) or the "Break-the-House Breakfast Special," which offers orange juice, three eggs, three strips of bacon or ham, home fries, toast and two cups of coffee for 99 cents. Or the free bowls of pickles and potato...
Explains Butlin: "The shareholders stood by us when times were tough, and we don't think we ought to take such a flipping great share of the profits now that they are looking up." Besides, most of the bonuses went for taxes...