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...itself in a world of superpowers? Obviously, not very much. Restricted by its 1955 State Treaty to small-bore "conventional" weapons and by reasons of budget confined to only $18 million worth of new ones a year, Austria has had to adopt what one Defense Ministry spokesman calls a "lock-on-the-door" policy: "It isn't foolproof, but the housebreaker needs time to get in, and by then you can telephone the police...
...know what it means." His familiarity with music and dance enables him to discuss a musical from book through choreography and score with unusual expertise. "Music is my religion," he explains. "Where others might go to church when they are on the brink. I just lock myself in a room and listen to Mahler. I don't know how many times that has pulled me back...
...hair and her blouse was open between her breasts. The train was going through the tunnel and it made a glumph sound as it went in and the wail of the whistle came out way back there, whoo whoo whoooooo. He heard the man fit the key in the lock and go inside very softly as if he were ashamed. Adele, he pleaded, just once. Willie took the knife out of his jeans. You disgust me, said Adele. Willie tied her wrists to the top bars of the iron bed and lifted her skirt. He felt faint. He glanced...
...present locks are installed on only one side of each emergency door. On the other side a door knob or handle is screwed to the door, without any mechanical connections to the lock. In one room, trapped students pulled the handle off the door. The door may be opened from one side only, and then only if the lock works properly...
...petrified forest of conflicting themes. It can be variously regarded as a study in revolutionary disillusionment, an attack on revolutionary fanaticism or a defense of revolutionary intransigence. Danton can be seen as victim or traitor, Robespierre as scourge or hero, or both as merely hapless puppets in the lock-step march of historical determinism...