Word: ought
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...pages mimeographed on one side and stapled together by hand) derives from the fresh and deliberate lack of pretense which has become The Island's trademark. This makes it an appropriate outlet for its material: "It allows us to print things which might not be perfect, but which ought to be read," as one of the three editors explains...
...anyone else the respectable alternative that Johnson has repeatedly demanded of his attackers. He is neither a name caller nor a placard carrier. He is no Mary McCarthy, who fatuously insists that it is the intellectual's duty merely to oppose the war, without deigning to suggest how it ought to be ended. Nor does he resemble those clergymen whose justifiable indignation at the war's barbarities is diluted by the fact that it is usually directed solely at the U.S., not at the Communist terrorists as well...
Galbraith contends that the U.S. went into Viet Nam under the mistaken notion that it was fighting "a centrally directed Communist conspiracy." In the light of the Moscow-Peking split, he adds, that notion is no longer valid, and the U.S. ought to quit wasting its energies there at the expense of domestic needs and of other, more important areas, such as Japan and India. Viet Nam is "the wrong place to make a stand," he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1966. "If we were not in Viet Nam, all that part of the world would be enjoying...
...more about protocol, and his ten-minute audience with Pope Paul VI last week-the third Pope to receive him-was properly decorous. His Holiness presented Louis and Vibraphonist Lionel Hampton with medals. The jazzmen responded with a folio of Michelangelo drawings and a couple of autographed recordings-which ought to enliven the Vatican's record library...
...have a genuine value. "Individual Faculty members aren't antagonistic to students' ideas unless they are socked into a political confrontation situation," Glimp said last week. "The real problem is how a question goes at the Faculty. They are annoyingly aware that it's a ball game they ought to be calling...