Word: dubin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feet are cold. He takes off his boots, leans back in his chair, and props up his feet on the Glenwood's footrest. Yeast works in the bread and in the city man's mind. He decides to build a solar house. He's going to out-Dubin Dubin. Out-Butler Butler. When he's a very old man, too creaky to cut and split eight cords of wood a year, he's going to stay warm. Damn them all! ?John Skow
Engineer-Architect Fred Dubin, who considers conservation "a national security issue," is currently engaged in 75 energy-conserving projects involving new and existing buildings. He is developing an integrated energy system for large buildings that uses wind and photovoltaic cells for generating electricity, then recaptures waste heat from the cells for heating water. The imaginative Dubin has also conceived a vast underground heating and cooling system for Washington's Market Square Development complex...
...Dubin's Lives, Bernard Malamud...
Naipaul -Birdy, William Wharton Dubin's Lives, Bernard Malamud Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick -Good as Gold, Joseph Heller - SS-GB, Len Deighton -The Best American Short Stories 1978, edited by Ted Solotaroff NONFICTION: Billy Graham, Marshall Frady -Confessions of a Conservative, Garry Wills -The Eighth Day of Creation, Horace Freeland Judson -The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas -The Powers That Be, David Halberstam The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris -To Set the Record Straight, John J. Sirica
FICTION: Birdy, William Wharton Dubin's Lives, Bernard Malamud Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick Good as Gold, Joseph Heller SS-GB, Len Deighton The Best American Short Stories 1978, edited by Ted Solotaroff The Flounder, Günter Grass