Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These melancholy accounts ought to signify a collective failure. Yet as Manic Power shows, the four men found an odd consolation in catastrophe, savoring their roles as the Bards Damned by Their Gifts, perennial favorites since the abbreviated days of Byron, Shelley and Keats. The tragedy of Lowell and his circle is not that they were martyrs to an unfeeling society, but that they played their parts too fervently. As each man drew closer to his finale, he discovered too late that it was impossible to remove the mask...
This despite a number of intentional difficulties that ought to make the work unreadable. The setting is a capacious apartment house in the 17th Arrondissement of Paris. Each of Perec's 99 chapters takes place in a different room or locale in the building. Scrupulous attention is paid to the furnishings, wallpaper, paintings, knickknacks and impedimenta in each new scene. The time is shortly before 8 p.m. on June 23, 1975. That is when the action begins and when it ends. In other words, this book has no forward movement, no fundamental plot...
...Lonetree is telling the truth, then Bracy's original confession may indeed have been coerced. If so, someone ought to be investigating the investigators. The entire probe will be reviewed by Rear Admiral John Gordon, who only last September was appointed chief of the Naval Security and Investigative Command...
That's just what Chin's play is all about--vital characters who say what they ought to keep to themselves, characters full of sound and fury, but lacking in sense...
This attitude toward drugs indicates a dangerous trend in the way Americans view the law. People seem to believe that the laws, passed by their elected representatives, ought to be obeyed only when convenient. An atmosphere of evasion--in taxes and business regulations as well as drugs--is replacing a faith that laws are passed for a greater good than mere momentary pleasures...