Word: helene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stratford, Conn., American Shakespeare Festival: Richard II and Henry IV, Part I, plus Shakespeare Revisited (readings rendered by Helen Hayes and Maurice Evans...
Their names, if they were married, were Peg and Tom, Jane and Bill, Jeremy and Jennifer. Single men were always called Brick or Brock or Bruce. Unmarried girls needed a gallant name; it was usually Helen. They lived in a smallish, unidentified city in an immemorial Indiana. The men spoke to each other in a language called kidding ("You old son of a gun"), and the women talked somberly about "our marriage'' as if marriage were a large, fragile china object one kept in the front hall. They led decent, busy lives, and the worst sinners among them...
...Miracle Worker is Teacher Sullivan (Anne Bancroft), who took the hand of little Helen Keller (Patty Duke), and with fierce patience, put within the child's grasping fingers the meaning of an unseen, unheard, unspoken world...
Stratford, Conn., American Shakespeare Festival: Richard II and Henry IV, Part 1, plus an evening of Shakespeare Revisited (selected readings by Helen Hayes and Maurice Evans...
...Miracle Worker is Teacher Sullivan (Anne Bancroft), who guided the child Helen Keller (Patty Duke) out of the terrifying void of a sightless, speechless and soundless existence. The two stars are as fine as actors...