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...Ethic. Another area where conservation is worth special effort is the private car, which now consumes 14% of all U.S. energy and 31 % of its petroleum...
...foster a new "conservation ethic," Sawhill said. The FEA is now advocating ways to reduce energy consumption during the summer. It is urging homeowners to run their air conditioners only on "really hot days," and then only enough to cool dwellings to 78°. To keep indoors tolerable, Americans should shade sunny rooms and wait until the cool hours of early morning or late evening to switch on appliances that throw offbeat (dishwashers, clothes dryers). In addition, the FEA advises, house holders should use the next few months to improve their homes' insulation. Al though all this will have...
Claudine (Diahann Carroll) is a maid. Roop (James Earl Jones) is a garbage man. She is a blend of obnoxious stereotypes. The first is the libidinous black woman who cannot stop having children despite her poverty. The second is the stern, loving matriarch urging the middle-class success ethic on her brood. Roop is merely single-line stereotype, the stud who has fled his obligations to one family and is now doing his best to love and leave Claudine...
...place of grace to try description and of grossness to try belief, proclaiming its economic sources even as it tells how prettily money can be used. It is a paradise existing as a testimony to the monstrous inequities of life--the logical extension of consumption ethic America--its wealth the moral point and the reward if not the end of economic success...
...impression on a public thankful that the energy crisis is over, as it indeed is. At the height of the crisis in late winter, soaring oil prices, abrupt layoffs in some fuel-short industries, and mile-long lines of cars outside gasoline stations shocked Americans into a new conservation ethic. People sharply curtailed driving and turned down lights and thermostats in homes and factories...