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Somewhere between the balm of a "courageous attempt" and the sting of a painful and wearisome failure lies the Harvard Dramatic Club's fall production for 1947. That it is brave to attempt the resurrection of a mouldering and awkward work by Henrik Ibsen can hardly be denied; the question is whether sufficient resources lie behind the bravado to justify the effort...
...journal, Christianity and Crisis. Many a Christian will agree that: "If two forms of the Christian faith, though they recognize a common Lord, cannot achieve a little more charity in their relations to each other, they have no right to speak to the world or claim to have any balm for the world's hatreds and mistrusts." Even partisans of each faith will admit some justice in the stern, three-point scolding Niebuhr administers to both sides. Excerpts...
This is one source of Hedda's power. When self-doubt stabs, she and Lolly, her redoubtable counterpart, pour on the balm. But the hand that drops the balm is also armed with claws. And Hedda's claws have grown long and sharp since she discovered her powers...
...Chicago, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, battered ex-light-heavyweight champ, decided that he had been wounded by a hair-treatment ad, and demanded balm. "The Thomas Scalp Specialists," Slapsie charged, had labeled him a "pouty puss" and suggested that he looked that way because they couldn't restore his hair. Further, they had published a picture of him as a contrast to a picture of wavy-haired ex-Heavyweight Champ Max Baer. Slapsie wanted...
Salt water bathing, traditional balm of the summer scholar, will have to be left to the schrod for the next few days at least, according to local weather experts who predicted a week-long cold snap last night...