Word: helens
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Right You Are is 48 years old, and there is scarcely a grey line in the script. It is a kind of intellectual and philosophical whodunit, aimed at discovering the truth of a situation. A government clerk (Sydney Walker), his wife and his mother-in-law (Helen Hayes) have recently arrived in an Italian town. Their new neighbors are all agog because he keeps the women in separate quarters, so that they can communicate only via notes put in a lowered basket. A convocation of irate gossipmongers, including the clerk's boss, summons the mother...
...blind people are students and teachers at the Perkins School for the Blind, a private school with classes from kindergarten through senior high school. Perkins is Helen Keller's Alma Mater. It was the first school for the blind in the United States, and the first to educate a blind-deaf child...
Jean Mayer, Professor of Nutrition, and Helen Channing, a senior research assistant at the School of Public Health, published their findings Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Their report was based on a study of graduates from a suburban high school, and a similar analysis of students at an unidentified Ivy League and Seven Sister College...
...took another sip of gin and finished the note to Tom. "And remember, I will always love you-Helen." Below her signature she scrawled, "Don't forget to give Dick his vitamins," and her eyes welled with tears at the thought of how sorry they would be and how sad it all was. Then she pinned the note carefully to her black cocktail dress, took a handful of pills, turned on all the lights, and composed herself on the sofa. As the darkness swept over her, she was thinking: "What if he has to work late...
...came home in time, and Helen became an "attempt" instead of a coroner's statistic. Did she really want to die, or was she just making a gesture? Helen does not know now, and her ambivalence is typical; experts on suicide believe that most acts aimed at self-destruction, whether or not they succeed, are really attempts to reach out for others -ill and awful ways of crying, "Help...