Word: lash
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...have some differences, however. Careful though Bush was not to attack Reagan personally during the primaries?the only thing he did to emphasize the contrast between Reagan's 69 years and his own 56 was to brag endlessly that he jogs two or three miles a day?Bush did lash heartily into some of Reagan's positions. The most important was Reagan's advocacy of a 30% cut in income tax rates over three years, a proposal that the nominee not only repeated but stressed in his acceptance speech last week. During the primaries, Bush derided that idea as "voodoo...
...scowling, bearded figure who was also acting as prosecutor, circled behind them and cursed, "I shall exterminate you vermin!" Then, without permitting a word to be spoken in their defense, he meted out the sentences. "Those two-execution," he barked. "This one -life imprisonment. The other two-100 lashes each." As Islamic guards led out the two men to be whipped, the judge called out after them, "Remember, every lash must draw blood...
This combination of Helen's bright side and Annie's dark--of pupil and teacher, optimist and pessimist--makes Lash's study fascinating. "One approached the world with a chip on her shoulder and assumed everyone was ready to knock it off; the other reached out to the world with a heart filled with love and kindness and assumed the world would reciprocate. It was the difference between the manners of Tewksbury and Tuscumbia." Without Annie--or when an outside force, such as John Macy intervened--Helen was at a loss. Without Helen, Annie was angry, vindictive...
...Helen's need of Teacher is obvious," Lash writes of Annie's work, the tireless hours spent spelling whole books into her pupil's hands, the sacrifice of her own impaired eyes. "But equally powerful was Teacher's reliance on Helen to keep her misanthropic impulses under control and to give her a sense of purpose in life." Annie saw and spoke for Helen; Helen loved and protected the woman she called Teacher in return. Their relationship was at once prosaic and parasitic. With Annie's death, Helen wrote a close friend, "For a while, I feel...
...When Lash set out to write Helen and Teacher, few people saw a need for another book on Helen Keller. But his book is likely to remain the last word on the subject for some time--at least until more new evidence is discovered. Lash's story is long and exhausting at times, but it is always enlightening and, above all, heartening. "God gave us life for happiness not misery," Helen Keller told one reporter on her 80th birthday. "I believe that happiness, attained, should be shared...