Word: unlock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is nothing like a change of key to unlock a whole new career. At least such is the case of a tall Welsh lass named Gwyneth Jones. A year and a half ago she was a so-so mezzo, beset with a special problem: "My voice just kept going up and up." Why fight it, she thought. So presto change, the mez zo became a soprano...
...broken toy; and it is knowledge that is tainted with evil. Through Satan's agent Mephistophilis (James Ray), the learned Dr. Faustus (Lou Antonio) makes a pact with the Devil. He wills his soul to eternal damnation for 24 years of life, during which he will unlock all the secrets of the universe, command all earthly power, be granted every whim of pleasure. The request makes Faustus an archetype of Western man, with his aspiring mind, towering ambition, compelling curiosity and vaulting pride. With Mephistophilis to do his bidding, Dr. Faustus conjures up spirits, becomes invisible, plays pranks...
They had a key that opened the heavy, studded oak door, and another key to unlock the steel grill barrier just inside...
...employment provides the excuse for tactics of disruption." In February, 40 boilermakers struck one company because they could not get fish and chips for their Friday lunch, and last month 300 iron workers walked off a job at the Sydney engineering works of Tulloch, Ltd. because management would not unlock a door to save them a 200-yd. walk in the rain...
...change of outer scenery. If, for instance, the author's aim is to reveal inner darkness, his characters traditionally head for Africa (Conrad, Gide, Paul Bowles). If, on the other hand, the blossoming of a long-repressed joie de vivre is the theme, then sunny Italy will unlock the passion in the tourist's heart (Goethe, Mann, E. M. Forster). But whoever would have thought of th Soviet Union as an emotional catalyst? Well, nobody, until British Satirist Anthony Burgess came along...