Word: cetera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Witchcraft et Cetera. Except for Professor George Woodberry, who nearly 50 years ago wrote the life of Hawthorne for the original "American Men of Letters" series, Hawthorne's biographers did not do much research on the facts of his life. Instead, they have speculated and commented, with varying degrees of critical acumen and psychological acuteness, on his published works. One result is that in the past 50 years a series of well-nigh indistinguishable opuses have been written about him. Their general story is that Hawthorne was descended from one of the witchcraft judges of Salem; that his father...
Morris Rubin, an alumnus, sums up: "This bunch doesn't feel the compulsion to boast about its conquests the way my generation did. Iwo Jima was all the proof of their manhood anybody required." One well-informed coed says: "As far as smooching, et cetera are concerned, there is considerable smooching-but not much et cetera...
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...everybody, but certainly for the class to which I have the misfortune to belong. It is the educated middle class, in which many may be glad to escape to the new communities, which need not be celibate. Some will be on a religious basis, others devoted to research, et cetera. . . . The park surrounding the house may be turned into farms and gardens, to be worked by the inmates. In this way the institutions may be selfsupporting...
...snow, one storm on top of the other. We were able to accumulate quite a few hundred dollars in snow money with which I was able to pay off the debt to the doctor. Then of course, little odds and ends came -the boy, et cetera, et cetera. I want to impress you gentlemen that I haven't been able to replace one piece of furniture that I bought since I married. I had to turn my bed over to my children because it's too weak to hold me and my wife. We had to wire...