Word: bulbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wall Scrawl. "The fetid 10 ft. by 10 ft. cell was windowless, barred and infested with cockroaches, fleas and mosquitoes," Robins later reported of his temporary residence. "A single yellowed bulb in the ceiling burned throughout the night as all the dogs in Christendom howled round us. On the cracked wall opposite the bed there had been scrawled in two-inch letters, MAN WILL DIE BUT THE CAUSE WILL LIVE...
...pianist had just played a smooth, neatly-groomed transition from a Schubert style sonatina to "Maple Leaf Rag," and a light bulb above my head flickered, and dimmed to about half. This was his signal in start the show. A cheap alarm clock was quickly adjusted and wound to keep taos off the length of the performance, and actress Lina Harvey dashed on some eyeliner. Jack Blessing mumbled about needing to hop to the John and everyone spread "Syntax" and kisses around for good luck. In a few seconds they all darted off onto the stage to begin the show...
...wasn't the only instance of sexual inequality we encountered. We visited a neighborhood light-bulb and lantern factory, for instance, where the workers were all women earning considerably less than their husbands in state-administered factories. In both places people on the revolutionary committees assured us that equality of income would someday come, that before 1949 women hadn't been able to earn anything at all. People were also moderately apologetic, when we brought the subject up, about the disproportionately few women on nearly all the revolutionary committees. In one factory in Sian a woman Communist Youth League secretary...
LIGHTING. Cutting the lighting levels in nonresidential buildings to no more than is needed could save as much as 700,000 bbl. a day. For example, removing one lamp from three-bulb fluorescent fixtures has already reduced energy use significantly in many federal buildings...
...death, Sexton survived a number of suicide attempts. After the 1963 suicide of Fellow Poet Sylvia Plath, Sexton recalled discussions the two had had in the late 1950s: "We talked about death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawing to it like moths to a light bulb. Sucking...