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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strong, bright and clear forms, to what is complete and has definite meaning." This was probably meant to encourage agitprop poster design. The artists, however, took it as a stamp of approval for cubo-futurism, suprematism, constructivism and the other isms that the ferment of Western art had helped set off. In their enthusiasm to create a new culture that would be a synthesis of modernist fragmentation, folk art and dialectical materialism, the artists got more from looking at Lenin's works than he did from theirs. "I do not understand them," Lenin complained. "I do not experience...
...periods. In this case, though, the agency involved was the Department of Energy and the proposed effective date 1979, not 1984. Part of President Carter's stand-by energy-conservation measure approved by Congress last May, the plan in question would require that thermostats in nonresidential buildings be set no lower than 80° F in the summer and no higher than 65° F in the winter, and that hot water settings be turned down to 105° F. Should Carter decide to implement the measure this week as planned, workers in some 5 million such buildings would...
This plan bears a wilting resemblance to the Petroleum Consumption Curtailment Countermeasures adopted last March in Japan, which urged workers to set their thermostats at 28° C (82.4° F). Although the fashion has yet to catch on with the public, Energy Czar Masumi Esaki has been trying to promote what he calls the Sho-ene (save energy) Look-a short-sleeved suit, sans tie, which he wore to greet Carter last week in Tokyo...
Carter, along with every other federal employee in Washington, is already used to taking the heat: since April, thermostats in Government buildings have been set at 80° F. Hamilton Jordan found relief by throwing open his White House windows, but millions of office workers who would be affected by the new edict have no such option: most new commercial buildings are steel, aluminum and glass cocoons, hermetically sealed against the weather-and cooling breaths...
Personal inconveniences aside, Carter's edict has also raised complaints from engineers. Merely setting the thermostat at 80° F, they argue, may actually waste energy. Many air-conditioning systems have not been designed to work efficiently and humidify properly at such levels. Matters are further complicated by "the solar load": as the sun moves around the building, room temperatures inside can rise by as much as 5° F. "You can't just set office thermostats like you do those in a home," explains Larry Wethers, a building-systems assistant for Chicago's 110-story Sears...