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Word: etcetera (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bull Durham. Though she builds an absorbing puzzle in The Benefactor (1963), in parts of Death Kit (1967) the scientific instrument of her prose is never quite equal to a musical instrument of the imagination. But in her more recent short stories, many of them collected in I, etcetera (1978), she triumphs, neatly drawing thought into the shapes of feeling. At the end of the story Debriefing, about the psychic perils of city life, she even makes what could be a gently funny summation of her own doggedness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUSAN SONTAG: Stand Aside, Sisyphus | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...said he feels that his testimony willnot be very decisive since the case is such a"large-scale argument," involving "textbooks, thenature of religion, the nature of religion in theminds of children, what constitutes religion,etcetera...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coles to Testify in Alabama Suit | 10/8/1986 | See Source »

That's a long wind-up to make a very small point. Were the Final Clubs central to life at Harvard, one could see reason, possibly compelling, for insisting they practice fairness, equity, democracy, non-discrimination, etcetera. But, nowadays, the Clubs need be central to no one's life; it is doubtful they're central to the lives of most who join them. Why, then, is it skin off anyone's nose if they are exclusive, discriminatory, aristocratic, or male chauvinist? Why not live and let live...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Case for The Clubs | 11/27/1984 | See Source »

...Phoebe --confesses he has written a feature story about her simply in order to see her. She stares at him--"Why!" -another blank "Because I want to marry you." Silence, more stares. "It'll take me a little while to absorb that." A long, lugubrious stare: "Absorbed it yet?" Etcetera, etcetera, ad nauseum...

Author: By Hanne-maria Maijala, | Title: XYZ, PDQ | 10/13/1983 | See Source »

...next fall when Jill, feeling out of it at Sarah Lawrence, visits him in Miami. Yes, she loses her virginity and suddenly sees the Sheik--who gets his name from the condoms, he proudly informs her--as the not terribly smart, two-bit hustler that he is. Etcetera...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: Loving Couple | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

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