Word: helene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Using evidence available on the surface, Lash says, most of the writers that trod the historical ground before him concluded that Helen was somewhat shallow. They preferred Annie to Helen. The reason is simple, he says. "Helen was almost too good." Her world was one of friends and enemies, black and white; those who cared for her were good; those who slandered her Teacher were not. As Lash quotes Alexander Graham Bell, there was a feeling among those who met her that "if God undertook to be represented on the earth, it would be in the person of someone like...
...hand, was much more complicated. She tempts writers, Lash believes, because "she had so many flaws and they were on the surface where you could get hold of them." Lash says he was "very conscious" of the natural bias toward Annie. Using the psychoanalyst's tools, he concludes in Helen and Teacher that Helen was forced into the position of drawing simple moral lines. "She knew how important Annie was to her," Lash explains. "She determined she would not allow any criticisms of Annie in her thoughts. That was the price she payed...
...chuckles and recalls when he began writing Helen and Teacher about three years ago. His seven-year-old granddaughter had come to Martha's Vineyard to visit him and when she learned of his latest project, she announced that she "knew all about Helen Keller." He asked her why. "Our teacher read us a book about Helen Keller," she responded. Lash says his granddaughter--and others like her--remember the story of Helen Keller because she ranks among a number of select historical figures that people can identify with. "It's very easy to understand why," he says. "Here...
...HUNDRED YEARS ago today in Tuscumbia, Alabama, "more of a village than a town," Helen Keller was born. The neighbors remembered her as a lively infant carried about the house on her mother's hip, raising a fuss like most children...
Less than a year after she entered the world, however, a disease--"they never quite figured out what it was" --injured Helen Keller for life. The story of the little girl from Alabama is one so familiar to most Americans that it does not bear repeating. With the constant aid and attention of Anne Sullivan Macy, the girl who could not see, hear or speak became more than a functioning member of society. When Helen Keller died in 1968 at the age of 87, she was eulogized as a force unto herself, a symbol of womanhood, of struggle, of America...