Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McCarthy's approach to the electorate remains the same. He got into the campaign last Nov. 30 almost as his own second choice, implying that he would have stood aside for Kennedy. He still manages to sound strangely devoid of the lust for power. "I don't think you ought to want it in terms of personal desire or aspiration," he said on a recent television show, "but I'm quite willing to be President." He hints that one term might satisfy him: "If you can't do it in four, you can't do it in eight...
Words of Challenge. If many voters are unhappy with things as they are, few can say what they ought to be, and there is nothing remotely approaching a consensus on the man who may be capable of charting the right course. Instead, there is a general feeling that the Ins are in trouble for making such a mess of things, and that none of the Outs seem all that much of an improvement...
...slide-rule the economy, many imponderables remain. One is the U.S. corporation and how it will respond to another swerve in policy. The surtax will have some bad effects for companies: it will cut into corporate profits and decrease spending for improvements. At the same time, the new tax ought to make some change in the tenor of company-union relations. Up to now, when labor negotiations are fiercer than usual, the advantage has been with labor. With full employment and rising prices, unions have been able to negotiate contracts with an average increase of 5% or 6% in wages...
...monologues delivered by a Jewish boy to his psychoanalyst. With that kind of copy and more to come, no wonder Random House has given Roth a $250,000 advance for the book and Bantam $350,000 for paperback rights. With movies, foreign translation and the rest, poor Portnoy ought to come off the couch with something like $1,000,000-which should just about pay the psychiatrist...
Shaw had a more recent stimulus, too. J.M. Barrie had in 1904 written Peter Pan, whose unbounded popularity infuriated Shaw. So Shaw set out to show how one ought to write for young people, and fashioned his Androcles as "a fable for children." The play was denounced by the critics and the religious press, who were outraged by someone's writing a funny play about religion. But Shaw claimed the work was not a comedy--an absurd assertion. It is a fable; it is a fantasy; and it is just as surely a comedy. Yet, like all the best comedy...