Word: unlock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noblest palaces, from the Archbishop's Palace in Udine to the Prince-Bishop's Residenz in Wiirzburg to the throne room of King Charles III in Madrid. No man of his time was a greater master of drama and color, or knew so well how to unlock the secrets of light or to harmonize painting and architecture. Though he was sometimes guilty of slickness, his best paintings still stun the eye. He was the last of the great baroque artists, and it was not until just before his death at the age of 74 that he began...
...added as key terms that would "unlock" Leaves of Grass the words modernness, which could stand today, and ensemble, a word which today seems to belong to the cloak-and-suit trade, but which Walt intended to mean "the idea of Totality, of the All-successful, final certainties of each individual man, as well as the world he inhabits." Many people, to their peril, have taken the flatulent old Faust at his own measure. Were it not for the genius of Leaves of Grass, this sort of thing would have been buried mercifully for the flapdoodle it is. But then...
...Britain, nearly 90% of mental patients are in unlocked hospitals; in the U.S.. less than 50%. Britain has 70 day hospitals; the U.S. only 25. The usual reaction of North American psychiatrists to the bearded Bierer's preachment is that U.S. legal and public opinion is not yet ready for a drastic change. The same arguments were advanced when a few progressive U.S. hospitals began to unlock their doors (TIME. Nov. 16, 1959). Yet patients free to come and go have committed no more crimes, caused no more trouble than the general population. The more freedom they have...
...guards until he arrives at intelligence headquarters. There he picks up his Combat Mission Folder, which is really a box containing his charts and maps and the arming devices for the bombs ("blivits") that are secured in the airplane's bomb bay. Together, pilot and intelligence officer unlock the orange box, take an inventory, lock it up again. The pilot signs for it, and the box is hauled to his plane, where it is chained to a post in the cockpit...