Word: kellers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learns to talk by imitating the sound of speech. The deaf learn by imitating the sight of speech. Both deaf and blind, blue-eyed, brown-haired Helen Keller learned to talk by imitating what speech felt like, beneath her fingers. Aided by her devoted, lifelong teacher and guardian, Mrs. Macy* (nee Anne Mansfield Sullivan), the prodigious Keller has been a U. S. phenomenon since the age of seven, has won without benefit of favoritism a college degree cum laude (Radcliffe), has cinemacted, lectured, written books, corresponded in French, German and English with her international friends?the blind, deaf, sick, poor...
...young male secretary proposed marriage with an ardor little diminished by the need to phrase it manually or in braille type. He later caused Miss Keller to reflect: "Love makes us blind...
...Miss Keller, regretting her useless ears more than her useless eyes, informed Thomas Edison (himself deaf): "If I were a great inventor like you, Mr. Edison, I would invent an instrument that would enable every deaf person to hear." "Oh you would, would you?" said he. "Well. I think it would be a waste of time. People say so little that is worth listening...
...best Keller anecdotes concern Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), her close friend. Clemens and Humorist Finley Peter Dunne were discussing Miss Keller when Dunne exclaimed: "God, how dull it must be for her. every day the same and every night the same as the day!" Said Clemens: "You're damned wrong there; blindness is an exciting business, I tell you; if you don't believe it, get up some dark night on the wrong side of your bed and your house is on fire and try to find the door...
...Miss Keller likes Playwright Eugene Brieux and his "brood of heresies," calls Bernard Shaw the "gadfly of the absurdities of our time," met in Senator La Follette "a lonely figure climbing the mountain of privileges," condemns Henry Ford's philosophy as alluringly Utopian, too mechanistic, finds John Davison Rockefeller Jr. a man who "has made of his millions a weapon to shake ignorance out of its citadel...