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I can say the word see. I can speak the language of the sighted. That's part of the first great achievement of Helen Keller. She proved how language could liberate the blind and the deaf. She wrote, "Literature is my utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised." But how she...
Those people whose only experience of her is The Miracle Worker will be surprised to discover her many dimensions. "My work for the blind," she wrote, "has never occupied a center in my personality. My sympathies are with all who struggle for justice." She was a tireless activist for racial...
That means we have the freedom to be as extraordinary as the sighted. Keller loved an audience and wrote that she adored "the warm tide of human life pulsing round and round me." That's why the stage appealed to her, why she learned to speak and to deliver speeches...
However, this near-sighted approach neglects the very qualities of a "nebulous" conception of blocking. Each student's unique first-year experience produces an infinitely diverse array of personal bonds. Reducing any particular network of friendships to mere factors of size of intimacy ignores their individual richness and worth. It...
A presidential panel this month recommended that federal funding for information-technology research be increased $1.3 billion over the next five years, in part to support an increasingly wired country. But a growing number of small towns have decided to take matters into their own hands. Some are forming cooperatives...