Word: kellers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general, Keller reports, science's discoveries have proved the Bible startlingly accurate in many checkable details. Keller cites the case of a Bible-reading British major who surprised and decimated a Turkish force in Palestine in World War I by attacking through the same narrow mountain pass which Saul and Jonathan had used to fall upon the Philistines centuries earlier. The Bible told just where to find it: "And between the passages . . . there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side . . . the forefront of the one was situate northward over against...
...paintbrush between her teeth, she learned to paint ideograms and to draw designs on silk belts. Reading her own poetry, she won new fame throughout Japan. Tsumakichi, too, eventually entered a Buddhist nunnery, and is still alive, surrounded at 67 by the reverence that is accorded a Helen Keller...
Last year, the Corporation broke its long-standing rule of not awarding honorary degrees to women. Helen Keller was the first winner; this year, another uncontroversial woman such as Helen Hayes, who marks her fiftieth year in the theater, may win. A more controversial figure, but still a possibility, is Eleanor Roosevelt...
...important picture on the program at the Exeter is not the feature, Touch and Go, but an hour-long documentary entitled Helen Keller in Her Story. Much adulation has been poured on Miss Keller and much has been written about her, including a good deal of pseudo-inspirational treacle. She has been variously called a saint and used as a symbol of hope and human aspiration. But the excesses of hero-worship have tended to obscure the fact that Miss Keller is a most charming human being. It is the great service of this film that it reveals...
With the help of old photographs, newsreels, and excerpts from previous motion pictures about her, the film presents a brief outline of Miss Keller's early efforts, under the tutelage of Annie Sullivan, to establish some means of communication with the world and win an education at Radcliffe. The most effective parts of the movie, however, are those which show a routine day in her life at her Connecticut home. With frequent flashes of humor, her eagerness for even the smallest of new experiences here stands revealed. Since she possesses a singularly photogenic face and a beautiful smile...