Word: highnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anne Bancroft, as Annie Sullivan, comes onstage in her drab grey traveling suit and black, high-laced shoes. The stiff back, the solemn, measured steps are at once determined and shy. It is the hard-jawed fighter who meets her charge for the first time and all but devours the child with her eyes. It is the troubled stranger, caught suddenly between youthful belligerence and a growing awareness of responsibility, who catches a doll full in the mouth, spits a broken tooth into her cupped palm, agonizes over a job she may not be able to handle...
...time she entered high school, Anne was a slick, style-conscious teen-ager -far more "sophisticated" than she is today-with a great interest in the boys. But always Mamma was there to keep her in check. "Once," says Anne, "my mother caught my older sister having sneak dates and beat hell out of her. I didn't want a licking, so I didn't do too much of that." And another time, when Annie smoked a cigarette onstage in an amateur production of Night Must Fall, her Aunt Kate yelled terrifyingly from the back of the hall...
With hypercritical hindsight, Anne has now decided that "I was very phony in high school. I was terribly shy, and I got aggressive to cover up that awful shyness." But what bothers her most about those years is the memory of someone else winning the school drama medal. The teacher's explanation-that the winner of her choice needed encouragement more than Anne-still rings false. The grown woman seethes with rage and searches for understanding of her girlhood slight...
...made her practice deafness by teaching her to ignore telephone bells, suddenly clashed pot covers, unexpectedly fired questions. Conditioned reflexes to sight and sound came under control. The cast still remembers with amazement the night at Manhattan's Playhouse theater when a cable snapped with a loud crack high over the stage. Anne and the spaniel that plays the Keller family dog jumped a foot. Patty Duke, as the deaf Helen Keller, did not even start...
...executives often rise with giddy speed to their high perches, teeter briefly, then disappear with the first rough wind, it is perhaps because they have little administrative and command background for the big job. And so some hang on, but many fall...