Word: delendaest
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...comes out of the theatre crushed and enervated. And this is what Albee wants. He has set his play in the New England college town of New Carthage; and he proceeds to carry out the ancient Cato's oft-repeated exhortation, "Delendaest Carthago." In this he is helped by what seems to him to be a sterile modern society marked, among other things, by sadism and a death-wish. Whether one shares this view, he puts it cogently...
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