Word: oughtness
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...Helen leads the audience through her honeymoon. In the sterile hotel, she faces her boss-husband with contrived fear that appears self-consciously artificial and mechanic. Gunn does not negotiate the production's tension as well as Agresta; his dialogue occasionally weaves emotional cadence into a part that ought to be strictly mechanical...
...called "digital divide" in America, with blacks and Hispanics having sharply lower access than their white counterparts. And, says TIME technology writer Joshua Quittner, Clinton's interest will draw much-needed attention to the problem. "This is good stuff - precisely the kind of thing the President ought to be doing," says Quittner. "Americans are guaranteed 'universal service' from the phone companies, and there's no reason the same shouldn't be true of Internet access...
...acknowledge his candor. "This is as important to us as our right to vote was back in the '60s," he declares. "African Americans have to be as resolute on this issue as the Jewish community is about aid to Israel." Any "handkerchief-head Negro" who disagrees, he adds, ought to be "shunned...
...while, a few days maybe, that's incredibly difficult and, worse yet, incredibly ridiculous. You move just to move, not only because you get tired but because you're in this free country of ours, and ought to be allowed to. You'll stand still for no man. But then it begins to dawn, as it did on me Monday, in a warm sun in an unremarkable parking lot outside the Px. You stand still because at some point someone told you to, someone with power. But it's also because you can. You get hooked on the discipline...
...Ought implies can. Although we agree that the Republican tactic of holding world leadership hostage to abortion politics is distasteful, the staff is foolish to criticize President Clinton for his failure to reach a deal that has no strings attached--a pipe dream in the current Congress...