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...nation to a cause. That metaphor, coined by William James, was last pressed into service by Jimmy Carter to gird us for the energy crisis. Before that, we have had wars on poverty, crime, cancer and even war itself (World War I). Now, Mr. Carter knew that turning down thermostats and risking lives in combat make disproportionate claims on the citizenry. Indeed, he sought to exploit that disproportion to rally the nation to the unglamorous task of conserving energy. The idea was to make the notion of conserving energy more important. What went unconsidered was what that kind of linguistic...
...Home really is. Alexandra thinks of him as the "dark prince" and recognizes "his diabolical arts." When the witches join him in his oversize steamy teak tub for the first of a series of baths and orgies, Darryl asks, "You kids think this is hot? I set the thermostat 20° higher when it's just...
...waiter while attending Utah State University. In 1975 he used $9,000 in family savings to found Tele Video Systems, a company that makes computer screens and keyboards. Although Hwang is now a multimillionaire, he says that his wife still fusses over utility bills and turns down the thermostat at home...
Veterans of Cold War I who are rushing to re-enlist for Cold War II should get a lift from this jaunty medley of 1950s history and spy fiction. Through diplomatic freeze and thaw, William F. Buckley Jr., editor of the National Review, has always kept his ideological thermostat set at a conservative 32° F. In his fourth novel-entertainment, he again slips into the adventurous alter id, Blackford Oakes, the dashing Yalie spook who first appeared in Saving the Queen...
...impressed by the efforts to conserve energy made by the communities you mentioned in "Looking Ahead by Cutting Back" [Nov. 10]. The fact that in spite of their sacrifices-using candles, turning down the thermostat-they could cut back only around 17% shows that conservation merely slows the rate at which we use up our resources. We still must develop a way to provide the energy we need...