Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seventy-three years have passed since a young teacher in Alabama held her little pupil's hand under a flowing pump spout and manually spelled out the word "water" upon the palm of blind, deaf Helen Keller. Last week Miss Keller, almost 80, went to Radcliffe College for the in formal dedication of the Anne Sullivan Memorial Fountain, which flows in the Helen Keller Garden that was presented to her at the 50th reunion of her class ('04). Before feeling the water, Miss Kel ler smiled mistily, read a Braille inscrip tion at the back of the fountain...
When Spanish-born Jose de Creeft arrived as a student in Paris in 1905, only Rodin was turning out anything but the academic nudes and busts that dominated the galleries. Though he lived in the same building with Picasso and Juan Gris, De Creeft himself was at first deaf to the noises of rebellion. Like everyone else, he made his bland clay models and sent them off to be cast at a foundry. Then one night he went to his studio and smashed every model in the place. From that moment on, he became a pioneer in reviving the nearly...
...learning simple tasks under the guidance of patient teachers. "I've seen children eight years old who couldn't tie their shoes," says Wirtz. "Here they learn in two weeks." Normally intelligent aphasics, unable to speak because of brain damage, have mastered the gift of language. The deaf and the crippled, unable to get proper training before, now get it as a matter of course. For those with orthopedic ailments, such aids as electric typewriters free them to use their minds. Dozens of handicapped children are on the road to college at last...
...Miracle Worker. This moving show-about the deaf-mute child, Helen Keller-owes much to the unmatchable acting of Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke...
...Miracle Worker. This moving show -about the deaf-mute child Helen Keller -owes much to the unmatchable acting of Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke...