Word: candlelight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following story), local officials and private citizens were taking matters into their own hands. Sometimes their energy-saving measures were more cosmetic than effective, but they were almost always imaginative. In Milwaukee, the public safety committee of the city's common council last week began meeting by candlelight. The Geauga Times Leader of Chardon, Ohio, was offering free advertising space for commuters organizing car pools. In Rensselaer, Ind., Mayor Emmett W. Eger turned off all of the city's 425 street lights - until after four burglaries, citizens demanded that the lights come on again. "People thought...
...Leslie, Mich., claims to have found a way to concoct a gasoline substitute by cooking in a big steel drum ingredients as unlikely as wood, leaves, brush and a soupcon of everyday garbage. In Massachusetts, the Warren Savings Bank whittled electric usage by doing its evening banking by candlelight; the city fathers of Block Island, R.I., put the community back on daylight saving time. Students at Boston's New England School of Art devised a means of keeping their nude model warm when they turned the thermostat down to 65°: they put up a transparent plastic tent that...
...truly magnificent body of law." But surely that is a body only a lawyer could love. The idea of even 40 double-column pages devoted, say, to the process of fighting with the electric company is enough to leave one yearning for a return to the pleasures of candlelight...
...Inauguration festivities "the Spirit of '76," pointing to the bicentennial that will wind up his second term. The theme, however, proved to be a bit vague to be translated into specifics. The best the organizers could do was to provide dresses of the Revolutionary period for the hostesses at candlelight dinners at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Then somebody came up with the idea of a marching band with a symbolic number of players -1,976. So every high school in suburban Virginia's Fairfax County produced young musicians to form a band that stretched...
...rises by candlelight to take his silly, much oppressed wife on an outing down the Thames. He frets over his accounts, glistens with pleasure to find himself "in the whole, to be worth above 1400 pounds-the greatest sum I ever yet was worth." He gossips of Lady Castlemaine, brought to bed of her fourth child by Charles...