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...committee is also sponsoring a series of staged humorous dining hall performance about recycling. Conceived by Lee B. Wexler '92, Dunster House's recycling chair, and Samuel Newell '92, the short act features a dialogue between and environmentalist and "Sam," a lumberjack who threatens to cut down various college house trees...
...trying to be real positive about recycling, and get our message across in a different way," Wexler said. He said he hopes the comedy routine will provide a model for other house publicity efforts...
...Peter Wexler is a crank. It has something to do with his belief that everybody is a liar or, as he puts it, "smug and self-satisfied and just close enough to the facts to get by." When young Holden Caulfield complained about phonies, it had the force of discovery. Wexler's grownup bitching sounds more than a little gratuitous. Wife Lily breaks the news sweetly: "These aren't great complaints, you know. They're tired, and small, and self-serving, they're vague -- if I weren't wife-of-wives I'm not certain I'd be charmed...
Perhaps not by Wexler, but certainly by Frederick Barthelme's latest poke at the pale-faced middle class. Barthelme has a laconic style suited to describing low-grade depression, a bland Houston subdivision, and the delicate condition of a marriage. It is as if he had before him the psychological equivalent of paint chips representing the subtle states of being blue...
...Wexler '92 framed the question in environmental terms, saying, "We don't have an obligation to proliferate waste in entryways...