Helen Keller

The Miracle Worker on Broadway

Regina Weinreich | Posted 03.05.2010 | Entertainment

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"No one expects you to perform miracles," says the head of the Perkins Institute for the Blind sending his prized pupil Anne Sullivan south from Bosto...

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Stage Door: The Miracle Worker, Conviction

Fern Siegel | Posted 03.05.2010 | New York

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It was Mark Twain who called Annie Sullivan a "miracle worker," and their uplifting journey is fertile ground for drama.

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Turning On The Light At Times Of Loss

Anne Naylor | Posted 02.20.2010 | Living

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Whatever you lose in the course of your life, there is something to gain. You may go through a period of "darkness," and at a certain moment, you may be able to see "light at the end of the tunnel."

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Deaf/Blind Advocates Angered By Casting Of Abigail Breslin As Helen Keller

nytimes.com | Patrick Healy | Posted 03.18.2010 | Entertainment

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Two weeks after a group of deaf actors protested the choice of a hearing actor for a deaf role in an upcoming Off Broadway production, the issue has s...

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Abigail Breslin To Play Helen Keller On Broadway

AP | MICHAEL KUCHWARA | Posted 03.18.2010 | Entertainment

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NEW YORK — From spunky "Little Miss Sunshine" to an even more heroic young girl. Abigail Breslin will play Helen Keller in the first Broadway r...

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Does Forgive Mean Forget? How to Get Over What Is Tearing You Apart

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living

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"If it weren't for the fact that he died, I'd like to kill him! Can you imagine leaving us in this mess?" Amanda, a widow with three little ones und...

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Working Miracles

Michael Sigman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living

My earliest memory of an inspiring title was The Miracle Worker, which I loved because that "miracle" suggested an astonishing achievement against impossible odds.

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Can Voters and Nonvoters Battling Against Despair Respect Each Other?

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Florida, Sarah Silverman Video, Cynicism, Voting, Gore Vidal, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Helen Keller, Sarah Silverman, Politics News

I had to chuckle at Silverman's video pitch "The Great Schlep"... her video is so clever, adorable, and so silly that it energized me.

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Daring to Adventure

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 08.11.2008 | Living

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Secure job, a home of my own, health insurance. These things are harder and harder to come by today so it's a good thing I never wanted them. I'm with Helen Keller, security is mostly a superstition, like stepping on a crack in the sidewalk to break one's mother's back.

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Rare Helen Keller Photo Found

Huffington Post | Verena von Pfetten | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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Photographs of Helen Keller, the world-renowned advocate for the deaf and the blind who suffered from both handicaps herself, are not hard to come ...

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Rare Helen Keller Childhood Photo Uncovered

AP | MELISSA TRUJILLO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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BOSTON — Researchers have uncovered a rare photograph of a young Helen Keller with her teacher Anne Sullivan, nearly 120 years after it was take...

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