Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidential race recalls to memory the words of Essayist William Hazlitt: "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be." I weep...
Maybe you're right in feeling that he understates the part-it's the Method, and it isn't noted for its ability to cope with poetic cadences. But when he says that the fall of Oedipus is inevitable, gods or no gods, you ought to believe him. The gods have been blamed long enough. Arrogance alone causes Oedipus' problems. His arrogant, or if you prefer, hubristic pride is the tragic flaw in an otherwise noble character...
...Foods has set for itself an even higher quota of 15%. The search for black talent has become so intense, in fact, that one agency is offering its employees a $50 finder's fee. This prompted Negro Leader James Farmer to observe: "I don't think we ought to let them have a Negro that cheaply. I think instead we ought to start ourselves a rent-a-Negro company...
...Chinese poverty a refreshing contrast to what he considers the economic excesses of the West. In a sentence reminiscent of Man as an End, his collection of essays published between 1941 and 1963, he writes: "Poverty and chastity are the two normal conditions of man, or at least they ought to be in the world today." In China's destitution and Mao's efforts to eradicate the past, Moravia finds the possibility of rejuvenation. For, once the past has been destroyed, says he, echoing Mao, it "will be replaced by a future that is equally rich in wisdom...
...group of financiers, led by philanthropist Stewart Rawlings Mott, proposed a meeting with the Vice President. They wrote that the funds would be made available if their group was "turned on" by Humphrey's response to their questions about his "view of the nation's future and what it ought...