Word: ought
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...McLuhan is a romantic, he ought to be an optimistic one, since he predicts that the electronic media will recreate the closed society. For centuries men grew more and more isolated, and the comfortable village, where privacy did not exist, seemed increasingly remote. When the villager learned to write he became an individual. He began to develop a private point of view. The world seemed to explode as the village learned of strange and unreachable people and places outside own circle...
...proposed that the church might some day consider the institution of "probationary marriages" as an antidote to the high divorce rate among the young. Lazure-who was promptly silenced by his superiors after explaining his views to the Toronto Star-suggested that trial marriages, if ever they are authorized, ought to be surrounded with strict social and ecclesiastical controls. The couples involved should be at least 18 years old, and would be required to practice birth control. Sanctioned by both church and state, such unions might last anywhere from three to 18 months, and could be readily dissolved...
Behind the criticisms of Ec 1's historical material and behind last month's critique as well is the conviction that the course would be better if it were more political. "This is the only course most people take in economics," says a section man, "so there ought to be more time on present problems and less on economic tools." Kelman's call for more "controversy" in Economics I was based on a similar idea--the course should be constantly examining both sides of economic questions instead of trying to develop an objective economic theory first...
...exemption: the clergy performs a vital function for society, and those who are dedicated to preaching God's peace should not have their hands stained with the blood of human war. Jesuit Biblical Scholar John McKenzie argues that mustering ministers "would destroy the symbolic value that the clergyman ought to have. He is to represent in this world that man whose mission was to die for others and not to kill them." Even so, there appears to be a growing consensus among ministers that, as the Christian Century recently argued, "the distinction and privilege granted to clergymen and ministerial...
...part, the ICC was plainly worried. The commission has been trying to handle rail mergers one by one for the sake of speed and economy and Justice William Brennan, siding with the majority, wrote a strong opinion stating that it ought to go back to the old, laborious system of considering all regional mergers together. As for the railroads involved, they were, in the words of Pennsy Chairman Stuart Saunders, "disappointed but not disheartened." Though the Supreme Court spoke of a "very short delay," the complications it unraveled last week may well keep the merger hanging for two or three...