Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charm of her impetuosity. Indeed, when the theater's elite gathered to celebrate her triumph at the opening night party for The Miracle Worker, many were not surprised to find her completely absorbed singing and playing "Clap Hands" with young girls of the cast, some of whom are blind...
...Live With It." In many another U.S. city Pamela would be shunted off to an institution. Not so in Atlanta schools, which integrate blind children (161 this year) with sighted students in a showcase program that began in 1954. Impetus came from one father of a blind daughter: Robert Hogg, a beer wholesaler, who faced up to his problem by launching the Foundation for Visually Handicapped Children. Hogg's group today spends $20,000 a year giving free training to blind pre-schoolers throughout Georgia. Purpose: to help parents prepare the children for as normal a life as possible...
...premature babies before doctors reported the cause (TIME, Sept. 28, 1953). When Pamela's father, an Internal Revenue Service regional chief, was transferred to Atlanta, Bob Hogg's group sent a special teacher to help the Coffeys avoid the debilitating kindness that can stunt a blind child's spirit even more than its physical handicap. At home, Pamela was taught to dress herself and brush her teeth, even to chew (something many children learn by watching others). In a nursery school she played unselfconsciously with sighted children, conducted herself with fiery, four-year-old independence...
Ultimate Compliment. Fitting smoothly into first grade at Garden Hills school, which has eleven other blind students, Pamela found few differences. A hand-picked "resource teacher" taught her to read Braille and use a Braille writer-a six-key device that works like an oldtime stylus and slate. The blind students carry the writers to class, take tests with them, even do long-division problems with them...
...Ivan (Nikolai Cherkassov) bears little resemblance to the historical figure. According to some historical ac counts, Ivan IV of Russia (1530-84) was a psychopathic sadist who slaughtered thousands of Russians, gleefully assisted at the torture of his enemies, and mur dered his own son in a blind rage. Eisen stein's Ivan is frankly intended to repre sent Stalin, who admired Ivan as the founder of the Russian state, and liked to think he was "terrible" only because he had to be. Eisenstein therefore dutifully whitewashes the brute. But the whitewash is spread so thin in some areas...