Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crossed Keys. The service features, on the other hand, ought to intrigue the customers: a 255-car underground garage, extension phones in the bathrooms (an extra washbasin is placed in a separate, screened-off vanity), a refrigerator-bar and an electric shoe polisher in each room. If these gimmicks sound a little too mechanical, at the expense of human service, there will also be multilingual doormen and desk clerks, and, above all, that grand old European institution, the concierge. "The European concierge," one traveler has explained, "is a combination of all-round fixer and archangel, the man who sees...
...Pakistan dispute over Kashmir, which is ruled by India but is heavily Moslem in population. "Work on Mr. Nehru's nerves." Ayub urged Kennedy. He argued that the Kennedy Administration had highly overrated the importance of neutral India in its allocation of aid, and that more U.S. money ought to be channeled to SEATO ally Pakistan. Nehru was overrated, too, suggested Ayub: "People think he's thinking all the time-actually, he's just in a trance...
...sinister; Coop gives testimony that convicts a business colleague of murder and then, with a stolen moneybag still not found, begins throwing pound notes around. When his wife asks where the cash came from, he mumbles something about the stock market and adds, as cellos groan ominously in what ought to be called the film's foreground music, "I made a killing...
...Parent Trap. A story about cute, goldenhaired identical twins who try to kid their divorced parents into remarrying ought to be thoroughly emetic, but thanks to Hayley Mills, who plays both leads, this children's comedy is delightful...
Rosalind is of course of heroine of the play. Yet in this production she comes off second-best to her companion Celia. Ideally, the Misses Hunter and Nye ought to exchange parts; and this would put the play into better balance...