Word: balms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will come as sweet balm to those burdened with hour exams to learn that Congressmen don't do their reading either. The most recent demonstration is the passage of the bill creating the Department of Transportation...
...Tiger Balm. More and more, U.S. firms are using free travel as a sales incentive; this year 8,000 compa nies are sending crackerjack salesmen to such faraway places as Venice (RCA) or Pago Pago (Ford). Nobody does it as grandly as Gibson. The company is paying out $2,000,000 for jet charters alone, will spend another half million to quarter guests in Hong Kong's Manda rin and Hilton hotels and entertain them. Each dealer is furnished with a 40-coupon book of tickets entitling him to everything from a pot of Oriental welcoming tea on arrival...
...blew itself out last week with the formalization of diplomatic relations between West Germany and Israel-a historic decision that surprisingly drew hardly a squeak from the Arabs. Another has been Erhard's deteriorating relations with Treaty Partner France. But from the Elysée Palace came another balm-a friendly longhand letter from De Gaulle saying he would be glad to move up the date of his next meeting with Erhard. De Gaulle even implied he would be glad to talk about German reunification...
...phone numbers on the frontispiece, he was busy "pensively knotting" a Schiaparelli tie) it gets to be page 352 before he gives the matter his urgent attention-far too late to save the book, much less elevator No. 4, from plunging to fictional disaster, certain bestsellerdom and the special balm only a really big movie sale can bring...
...still the human sting is taken out of Jocelin's fall by Golding's wish to moralize. Nature is introduced in the final pages as a healing balm, so that the dying Jocelin can say as he views the tilting spire, "It's like the apple tree." There is a kind of vague inspirationalism to it all, but the book never becomes effective as the story of a man, and emerges as a foredoomed effort to stretch a proverb into a novel...