Word: helene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LASH WAS HESITANT when President Horner first approached him to write the definitive biography of Helen Keller, Radcliffe '04. But there was something in the Helen Keller story that rung a bell--another relationship worthy of exploration. True, there had been many books before. But no author had the full access to the documents and letters that Lash found...
...Very few of us grow up like the wild boy of Averon--in isolation," he says laughingly. "There is always an individual," he insists. "The friend--or it may even be the enemy--and we get our own identity in a sense from that person's eyes." What separates Helen and Teacher from the volumes that preceded it, Lash says, is his work on the relationship between the two women...
...Lash, therefore, the balance of the Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy story was more than history. "I guess if I were starting life all over again and realized the pleasure I got out of writing biography," he says, "I would do some very serious work in training myself in psychiatry." Dismissing the idea that psychobiography is junk, Lash believes psychoanalyzing his subjects--something he does occasionally in Helen and Teacher--can be a very helpful tool in unravelling mysteries...
...Helen Lambert Scott is a legend at Detroit's inner city Angell Elementary School. "It is quite evident which children come up from Mrs. Scott's third grade," says Angell Fourth Grade Teacher Dorothy Lindsey. "They are well behaved. They jump right in and attack their work. They listen. They participate...
...April, modern poetry expert Helen Vendler, professor of English at B.U., accepted an offer to share her time between B.U. and Harvard. She will become a visiting professor of English here in the 1981-82 school year and will alternate semesters between the two schools...