Word: brutishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have S.J. Perelman saying "I think Swift said that life is not only nasty and brutish, but short" [Sept. 28]. Perelman should be advised that the quotation is from Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan (1651): the life of man is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short...