Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captured at last, and seated forcibly at table, Helen Keller still does not yield. She flings her spoon away. Annie slaps another into her hand-and another and another. In the end Teacher Annie Sullivan stands triumphant above her charge. She has won a signal victory: Helen has eaten with a spoon and folded her napkin...
...Pompeii of Provence," is rich in Roman ruins and history. Founded by Julius Caesar in 49 B.C., Fréjus helped build the fleet Roman galleys that defeated Antony and Cleopatra in the battle of Actium in 31 B.C. It was at Fréjus that Napoleon made his triumphant return from Egypt in 1799, and it was a key beachhead when the Allies landed on France's southern shore in 1944. The golden CÓte d'Azur begins at Fréjus' beach, and this year the dry summer had brought a record in tourists...
...Miracle Worker. Anne Bancroft and twelve-year-old Patty Duke bring such intensity and skill to Child Helen Keller's terrifying but triumphant fight for light that the show, despite its faults, is frequently great theater...
...desperate goal-line stand in the closing seconds of the game gave the Crimson football team a 27-20 victory over Brown in 1953. Six years have passed since that triumphant November afternoon, and the varsity has yet to register another win against the Bruins. No other rival, not even Yale or Princeton, can claim such domination over the Crimson...
...Miracle Worker. Anne Bancroft and ten-year-old Patty Duke superbly enact famed Teacher Annie Sullivan's turbulent, triumphant struggle with the child Helen Keller. The play is sometimes clumsy, but the show as a whole is unforgettable theater...