Word: balms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LOWER DEPTHS. In a crude beam-and-burlap basement, a group of humanity's dregs inhabit a no-exit hell of thoughtlessness, meanness and cruelty for each other, until a stranger for a while tries to set their lives in motion again and soothes them with the balm of understanding...
...children, open-faced and openhanded. He tends a park gate where he shoos away any colored child who tries to enter. Every night Morris readies a ritualistic footbath for Zach's raw, swollen feet. But in the realm of color, skin-deep is heartdeep and there is no balm for those abrasions...
...south, Mr. Shin elects to remain with his congregation in Pyongyang. "We will give them their Christ and their Judas," Mr. Shin explains. For he has come to believe that what man needs is not the chill wind of reason, as the young narrator insists, but the healing balm of belief...
Welter of Waste. Military learning is also balm for the unemployment problem: at least 60% of what the services teach is directly applicable to civilian jobs. Hundreds of thousands of servicemen go back to become everything from auto mechanic to bacteriologist to weatherman. Almost 100,000 men now in the services have been raised to the equivalent of a high school education since they entered-a figure equal to about a tenth of the nation's annual school dropout rate...
Lady Bird, who turned 51 this week, views her role as First Lady of the U.S. with a homemaker's eye: "I will try to be balm, sustainer and sometimes critic for my husband. I will try to have my children look at this job with all the reverence it is due, to get from it the knowledge that their unique vantage point gives them, and to retain the lightheartedness to which every teen-ager is entitled. For my own self, my role must emerge in deeds, not words...