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...Angeles, on the other hand, shame is the remedial motive, and not because the city's harbor has been aptly described as an "open cesspool." Rather, the local water-quality-control board's sole public member, Ellen Stern Harris, pointedly began inviting taxpayers and television reporters to board meetings. Under this public scrutiny, the embarrassed board immediately toughened its antipollution policies, putting potential polluters on tight cleanup schedules. As a result, says Cecil Muchmore of the harbor pollution patrol, "the fish are coming back...
...Feldberg's overall contention is that the Muskie campaign can only be characterized by its insidious deceitfulness. The basis for this argument revolves around a series of incidents in the New Hampshire primary which supposedly changed the heretofore clean campaign "into a cesspool of low-blows and innuendos...
...trusted, no used-car salesman is this "man from Maine." Yet in the final 36 hours before the polls opened in New Hampshire last week. Muskie and his staff were involved in four separate but related incidents of deceit that transformed the placid New Hampshire campaign into a cesspool of low blows and innuendos. Three of these deceptions pertained to campaign financing, while the fourth was related to the war in Vietnam...
...read Wilhelm Stekel, who authored my favorite vaudeville bill, Wandering Mania, Dipsomania, Pyromania and Other Allied Impulsive Acts. And I read George Orwell, who let me know that I was not the first adolescent to be obsessed with excrement (he compared his Pencey to a "tightrope over a cesspool"). I read Albert Camus' Notebooks and stumbled on a paragraph that illumined, I think, the Salinger myth: "I withdrew from the world not because I had enemies, but because I had friends. Not because they did me an ill turn, as is customary, but because they thought me better than...
...stench is two lagoons to the west of the town. They were bulldozed out by Libby, McNeill & Libby, when the company found that the discharge from its big beet-processing plant at Hartford was polluting the local creek. The idea was that the two lagoons would serve as a cesspool area, where wastage could be aerated and treated until it was pollution-free...