Word: balme
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...painting his genre scenes of country American life just at the moment when the industrial metropolis, rather than the land, was turning out to be the central fact of American existence. His vast figure compositions, creaking with every cliché of academic design, bulging with heroic prelapsarian muscle, were balm to a traumatized society. So was his belief in keeping art free of the French, or at any rate foreign, stylistic...
...meetings, innumerable agitated sessions with his official advisers and countless private talks with old friends, President Ford said that he was ready at last to "bite the bullet" on the economy. But the program that he presented last week to a nationally televised joint session of Congress was more balm than bite, and not a great deal of either...
...Britain headed into the homestretch of the second electoral campaign this year, the mood of the country and the sharply contrasting styles of its two major parties could not have been more clearly drawn. Offered a choice of Laborite Harold Wilson's balm or Tory Ted Heath's gloom, the voters seemed to be opting for the former...
BETTY FORD: Balm...
...artist's sudden maturation is balm to see: 20 years of work, elusive recognition-then a burst of paintings of exceptional originality and depth. It does not often happen that way, but in the past year it has to a soft-spoken California painter named Joseph Raffael, 40. His series of five Water Paintings-large studies of light and reflection on fragments of river, without horizon or air or any of the normal appurtenances of landscape painting-goes on view this week at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in lower Manhattan...