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...rally around me, stalwart haters of artificiality. McMansion delenda est! Let us sow salt into the well-manicured lawns of these suburbanites, so that they will live without their lush Kentucky Bluegrass for a thousand years...
...ANCIENT times, Cato the Elder ended each and every one of his speeches before the Roman Senate with the words "Cartago delenda est"--"Carthage must be destroyed." And the city-state across the Mediterranean--Rome's largest commercial rival--eventually was annihilated in the course of the Punic Wars...
...Delenda est Carthago!" Senator Marcus Porcius Cato used to cry in urging Rome to destroy its old enemy. And so it was to be. By 146 B.C., the Romans had driven out Carthage's 500,000 inhabitants, razed the city, and sowed salt in the rubble so that nothing would ever grow there. As recently as 1930, the ancient metropolis was no more than a sleepy Tunisian village of 2,000. Now the place is being ruined in a new way-by developers...
Your "get McCarthy" diatribe sounds like Pravda on Trotsky. Such foaming at the mouth! With adjectives, yet! "Snarling," "whined," etc. Clear-eyed, noble liberals and the skulking, beastly villain, right out of stock. Like another Cato, your every issue croaks: "Delenda est McCarthy...
...Bursar's office. Harvard had not been the world's most congenial patron for the art. Puritan distrust of music as a rootlet of evil lingered on throughout the 19th century: Francis Parkman was said to have ended his yearly budget report at the Corporation with "Musica Delenda Est." By 1914, however, most of this sinfulness seemed to have worn off, and music was looked on, at worst, as a useless frill...