Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That you can be selling when you ought to be praying...
...division within the Harvard community. How this will be dealt with is up to the community as a whole. The moralistic name-calling might continue, though this would be deplorable. What is needed is an understanding that both sides in the dispute are part of the same community and ought to work together for the common good of the community. While this may not render an outcome acceptable to both sides, at least it will provide the common ground from which intelligent and hopefully effective discussion can be launched. Simon J. Alberga...
...Dean's Office reports an intrusion into a female freshman's room. In Hollis, a student woke up to find a man at the foot of her bed. Rather than realizing something is amiss, administrators are quite satisfied with the campus security system. It is we--the students--who ought to reform ourselves, they say. Our watchwords should be "vigilance" and "caution," according to administrators...
...idea of mastery has taken a beating in American art circles in the 1980s. Scorned by deconstructivists as the mask of elitism, downgraded by critics who ought to know better, misused ad nauseam by the art dealers' industry, and rare as the phoenix anyway -- Who wants it? And yet, who doesn't? Sometimes you come across a contemporary exhibition for which there is no other word, and the show of drawings by Richard Diebenkorn at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City...
...Resolution 242 as a basis for negotiations, the Palestine National Council in Algiers last month did little more than obfuscate its position on Israel's right to exist. But ambiguity represents a step in the right direction from the dagger-sharp stance of the past, progress that ought to be encouraged and clarified through diplomatic channels...