Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coexisting dogmatically and all wearing safety belts is perhaps a little too richly utopian for a generation taught to look at life gloomily--as if from the inside of someone's Better Mousetrap. Yet such a sunny world is emerging, and science has recently made a comforting discovery which ought to dispel completely any snivelling doubts that things are getting better...
...responsible for assigning hot war targets to the various services according to capability, is under heavy fire from a diehard Navy clique in the Pentagon. Reason: the director of the targeting board is an Air Force officer, SAC General Thomas Power, who, to the diehards' way of thinking, ought not to have much to say about the war missions of the Navy's cherished Polaris missile submarines. The Navy critics are not mollified by the fact that a vice admiral is Power's deputy...
...more radical approach taken by David 'SL. HarFord II Professor of the . Of each lying our educational system, man seems to ask; what does it to help or hinder, the, development of man into what he--is Riesman view--ought to be? Thus he that American culture generally volves thinking in terms of quenoes or categories which boxed off from one another, Riesman, the question is not one accepting this pattern as given of working within it, but one of olding whether or not it is Riesman regards examinations grading as manifestations of pattern. A examination than marks...
...from a participation in eight courses of steaming gravied food, topping off with salted nuts which the little old spinster Gummidge from Oak Hill said she never knew when to stop eating ... an ennui which carried with it a retinue of yawns, snarls and thinly velled insults.... The subject ought to be unmistakeable...
...would be easy to keep quoting this section of MacDonald's anthology. I ought to mention Henry Reed's "Chard ("As we get older we do not younger"), better even than parodies of Eliot, and of Gertrude Stein that a MacDonald informs us is the dying words of Dutch . Also, I should have thought to parody Robert yet Firman Houghton has go to Boston, see the up and down again, and "That's the way with and with people." He closes don't get me wrong. I wouldn...