Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Creeps" ought to accept and even welcome their abnormal characteristics, according to Henry A. Flynt '61, a former Harvard student. Flynt delivered a lecture on "The Important Significance of the Creep Personality" to an informal gathering in the Adams House Upper Common Room last night...
...Creep ought not to be ashamed of his personality, Flynt asserts. Flynt, lists four advantages of the Creep personality: he need not accept the bans with which society divides the adult from the child, he achieves an extreme sense of self-identity, he enjoys an advanced ability to fantacize, and he is in a unique position to be a cultural revolutionary...
...There ought to be a law. Something--anything--to keep House art committees from exhibiting everybody who likes to doodle nudes as he talks to his girl on the telephone...
Whether stoking her pet peeve ("Women in slacks look like the back end of hacks"), assaulting high fashion ("Their models look as if they had just been blown out of a wind tunnel"), hitting back at the birds ("There ought to be a law that makes pigeon feeding a crime"), or taking a good-natured swipe at the opposite gender ("Man is indeed the weaker sex, worse luck"), Inez Robb interprets the world she roams with an inexhaustible vivacity that can make her competitors' columns read like the telephone book...
...method horribly breaks down. The play is carefully and clearly constructed to develop four different sorts of characters (court, fairies, lovers, clowns) who use different language, and this production loses greatly by blurring Shakespeare's distinctions. The highly mannered speech and in heretly ludicrous situation of the infatuated pairs ought to be enough to define their place in the comedy Leavitt has them fooling around in a style completely inappropriate to their parts. Helena (Janet Leslie) make it clear how fine they can be as fighting bitches, but as simply creatures in love they and Lysander and Demetrius (Tom Adams...