Word: helene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Naturally I looked forward to the interview as one of the greatest privileges of my life. I reached Helen Keller's home at the appointed time and was ushered into the living room by the maid who said that Helen Keller had to go unexpectedly to New York. Her teacher, Mrs. Macy--her "liberatorr and guardian angel"--had to consult an oculist as she was losing her eyesight rapidly and Helen Keller went with her and her secretary. So while waiting I availed myself of the invitation to look at her library and read any book I wished. In addition...
...about five o'clock Miss Helen Keller and her secretary appeared. They welcomed me to their home with southern hospitality. Miss Helen Keller was born and lived a number of years in Alabama. Miss Thompson revealed her Scotch origin in her speech every now and then, nor did she need to conceal...
...Miss Helen Keller has doubtless much to teach us who have our normal physical eyes as to what and how to see. She impresses one as a person of great soul-wealth. Hers is a most meaningful face, possessed with an ideal worthy of any human being. She is very vivacious and looks healthy and happy. She answered all my questions herself but Miss Thompson had to repeat to me all her words as I could understand only a very few words which she pronouced very distinctly indeed. A stranger has to be used to her speech before...
...group of diehards in the Massachusetts House of Representatives had cause for limited optimism. Then, the Massachusetts Commission on Communism, which for a year had been studying subversive activities in the state, published names of 85 alleged past Communists, including Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics; Mrs. Helen Deane Markham, former assistant professor of Anatomy; and Leon J. Kamin, former teaching fellow in Social Relations...
Singer had appeared before the Velde Committee in May of 1953 and then testified freely about his own participation in the group. But he declined to answer questions concerning other alleged members, among them Harvard physics professor Wendell H. Furry and former Harvard Medical School professor Helen Deane Markham. Singer based his refusal both on grounds of conscience and on the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination...