Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even Woody Allen. If you want to watch the work of a man who knows the secrets of dialogue, suspense and humor, then flock to the next showing of The Day Room. Certainly Ronald Ribman, professional Playwright, could do worse than to buy a ticket and learn how plays ought to be written...
...said later. Still, he was predictably enthusiastic about his venture into East-West relations. "Most of us agreed, throughout the week, that we get far too little information about them and they get far too little information about us," he said. "If we can sell them Pepsi, we certainly ought to be able to talk to them." The Soviets seem to agree: they are planning to air the Donahue programs on Soviet television soon...
...issue is a democratic one. Whether the clubs ought to exist is one thing; whether or not they are "good" is another one altogether. It must seem a little ridiculous that organizations such as the KKK, the Spartacists, and finals clubs can all hide under the shield of democracy when they are so undemocratic, but that is part of what we sacrifice...
...constant vigilance against the Soviet threat. Indeed, the project was spurred by complaints about ABC's controversial antinuclear drama The Day After. In a 1983 newspaper column, Author and Critic Ben Stein (The View from Sunset Boulevard) proposed that to balance that film's allegedly liberal tilt the network ought to make a movie about what life in the U.S. would be like under a Soviet regime. Brandon Stoddard, then head of ABC movies and mini-series and now programming chief, hired Wrye to develop the idea. Envisioned as a three- hour TV movie, the project grew into...
Neustadt crafted a memorandum for the committeeurging it to look for a successful politician torun the Institute and be a lightening rod for thestudents considering elective office. Thornburgh"symbolizes in his person the things that ought tobe encouraged," Neustadt said...