Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reasonably successful and conscientious American family is left with any time for literature, it tends to read in winter what used to be regarded as summer fare. The holiday reading list increasingly represents an escape not from serious literature but toward it; vacations loom as the annual oasis where people can soak up the topical or timeless, talked-about or dreamed-about books...
...year round, and they seem somehow surprised to discover that everybody's habits are not the same. Says Novelist Peter De Vries, who is on many a vacation book list himself: "I'm always amazed at lists of summer reading. Mine is the same as fall, winter, spring-it doesn't shift gears, throttle down, rev up, or anything." Although he has taken only a week off so far this summer, De Vries has already zoomed through Bruce J. Friedman's Stern and Italo Svevo's The Confessions of Zeno, is currently reading or rereading...
From Memory. Though a silent, pale, frail-looking man, Rostropovich is the iron man of the concert circuit. Periodically, like a compulsive mountain climber, he seems compelled to tackle great chunks of the cello repertory simply because it is there. In eleven concerts in Moscow last winter, he accomplished the unparalleled feat of playing 41 different works, virtually the entire repertory for cello and orchestra, all from memory...
Until recently, builders did little but complain about the problem, spent considerable amounts of money air-conditioning inside rooms at the same time they were heating outside rooms-particularly in glass-walled buildings, whose outside rooms not only lose a great deal of heat in winter but get cooked by the summer sun. Finally, in the early '60s, General Electric engineers lit upon a solution: trap the heat-light through special ducts in the lighting fixtures, pipe it to outside rooms where it is needed most. They found that whole buildings could be heated inexpensively with nothing more than...
Most dramatic example of the new system to date is a two-year-old high school in Kimberly in northern Wisconsin, where temperatures have been known to drop as low as -31° in winter. The school was built with a minimum of outside windows and lots of fluorescent lights, all of which have built-in ducts that trap over 60% of their heat.* The ducts also collect the heat produced by the students' bodies-which is surprisingly high. One average-size incumbent 15-year-old throws off more heat than a 100-watt bulb. Recovered and recirculated...