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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...create my own little microcosm of cleanliness. Sweep, wash, throw away--whatever it takes to keep the fiend at bay. But, after all these years of washing machines, garbage cans and recycling bins, I feel truly trapped. Am I the only one? Does anyone else see the monster at the Union, where first-years use about 9000 "Veritas" cups each day? How about in the Sunday New York Times, which comes at the cost of acres of forest land...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: An Environmentalist's Angst | 3/20/1991 | See Source »

...GROWN DEPENDENT on these garbage collectors and drivers. When the garbage monster runs out of land to swallow, what's next...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: An Environmentalist's Angst | 3/20/1991 | See Source »

...sure. But the mere thought is scary enough to send me running to my recycling bins. I comb through my roommates' trash for white paper, aluminum cans and newspaper scraps. I retrieve whatever I can from the clutches of the garbage collector, which I now realize is feeding the monster...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: An Environmentalist's Angst | 3/20/1991 | See Source »

...running at full sprint from the monster of garbage...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: An Environmentalist's Angst | 3/20/1991 | See Source »

...volume is ostensibly a history of her mother's extraordinary family: one member was Alexander Graham Bell's assistant; another went to the Arctic with Admiral Robert Peary. But Susan finds it impossible to keep her father offstage. A friend is asked, "So, do you think he was a monster?" Mary, Cheever's wife, wonders, "Maybe he was wicked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jack, Wrench, Hubcap, and Nuts: The intimate journals of John Cheever are full of conflicts about marriage, writing, drinking and sex | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

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