the box owned by the mythological figure Pandora, which released all the sorrows of mankind into the world when opened; it also contained the spirit Hope-see Pandora
Because of this it has gained a number of other meanings:
... and lecturer at Yale University (one of his students was Thornton Wilder) who began acting on Broadway in 1936.
He was typecast as the wasp-tongued, supercilliou ...