The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public conciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.
Source: The Worst Years of Our Lives, Goodbye To The Work Ethic (1991; first published 1988).
-- Barbara Ehrenreich, (Aug 26 1941-____), US writer; She wrote Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, 1972.