Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long." By the calendar, Helen Keller was nine when she corresponded with Whittier. By Helen's own insistent reckoning, she was not quite three. She considered that her real life, her "soul's birthday," as she put it, began when Anne Sullivan, who herself had been half-blind before surgery, penetrated Helen's limbo of blind, deaf childhood. "Teacher," as the girl was always to call her, not only put her pupil in touch with the world but also began the process of liberation that was to make the child from Tuscumbia, Ala., a world figure...
...imbecile's life in an asylum, Helen Keller learned to read and hear with her fingers, and by touching others' throats and lips, she was eventually able to verbalize the words she visualized in her mind. At eleven, she was raising money for the benefit of other blind children. She traveled. She wrote stories. She maintained an animated correspondence with writers and clerics; Mark Twain named Miss Keller and Napoleon "the two most interesting characters of the 19th century." At the turn of the 20th, Helen Keller went to college at Radcliffe, where she was to graduate...
...shed. As his brother's political "no-man," as an aide for several months to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, and as the interrogator of labor racketeers for the Senate Rackets Subcommittee, Bob Kennedy picked up a reputation for a sort of brash, hard-driving, often seemingly blind moralism...
...Blind and deaf after a sudden illness at the age of 19 months, she later became, with the help of her childhood teacher and longtime companion Anne Sullivan, the first person with these handicaps to acquire normal living and language skills...
...didn't think of the black and white as racial, but when I heard about King being shot, it suddenly seemed relevant-the rickety structure, the black friction tape, the white mess." Through his almost accidental and homely memorial, Wiley sardonically reminds his viewers that chance and blind illogic play roles in art as well as in life...