Have you seen "The Miracle Worker"?

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  1. SaggyWoman Active Member

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    What did you think?
     
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    Have such an ingrained dislike for the hyper-liberal, pro-Nazi Helen Keller that I simply have no time to see something that "glorifies" such a person.

    That's my story and I'm sticking to it. :eek:
     
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  3. stubbornboy New Member

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    pro nazi helen keller?can you give me some dettails? :confused:
     
    stubbornboy, Feb 17, 2003
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    Keller was a socialist. The Nazis burned her books.
     
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    Keller was a communist sympathizer (not a nazi, my mistake). She hung a Russian flag covering her doorway so that all who walked in had to bow under it. She was rabid and anti-American to the core.

    Miracle Worker is actually the story of Ann Sullivan and is very good (Helen is her child student, not the #$%^ she turned into).

    BTW, everybody tries to be politically correct and never say anything negative about her. So that's why we've never heard how liberal she was.
     
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    I read the book long before I saw the movie and was deeply moved by Annie's story. (The scene in which her brother dies in the poorhouse is still with me.)
     
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    Trivia tidbit: Helen Keller shares the same birthday as a certain Baptist Board regular
     
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    thanks for the info :rolleyes:
     
    stubbornboy, Mar 3, 2003
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    I saw the play last night, and actually, it seemed to be more about Anne Sullivan than it did Keller.

    I still enjoyed it, and I wanted to tell Keller's family to get a grip several times.
     
    SaggyWoman, Mar 22, 2003
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    Keller was a communist sympathizer

    so was the early church. ;) i'm much more forgiving of such beliefs held before history demonstrated how hideously dangerous they are, at least on a modern national scale. when did helen keller live?
     
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    I noticed that Alabama has chosen Helen Keller to be on the state quarter honoring that state. Wonder how she beat out Bear Bryant?
     
    rsr, Mar 27, 2003
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