Word: greenleaf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very pleasant to live here in our beautiful world," she wrote to Poet John Greenleaf Whittier. "I cannot see the lovely things with my eyes, but my mind can see them all, and so I am joyful all the day long." By the calendar, Helen Keller was nine when she corresponded with Whittier. By Helen's own insistent reckoning, she was not quite three. She considered that her real life, her "soul's birthday," as she put it, began when Anne Sullivan, who herself had been half-blind before surgery, penetrated Helen's limbo of blind, deaf...
Meaning in these stories is most often embodied in a common object charged with mysterious and terrible significance. In several of them a supernatural power is represented as a powerful animal. In Greenleaf, the story of an old woman obsessed by hate, a mad bull stands surrogate for divine vengeance-or perhaps for divine love? "The black, heavy shadow tossed its head several times and then bounded forward. Mrs. May remained perfectly still, not in fright, but in a freezing unbelief. She stared at the violent black streak bounding toward her as if she could not decide what his intention...
...rest of the magazine is given up to a "complete" bibliography of Miller's writings and to two previously unpublished articles by him. The bibliography is not complete and even inaccurate in several places, but it is a useful beginning. The two articles, one on John Greenleaf Whittier and one on Protestant Churches in Colonial America, though not vintage Miller, serve as fine introductions. The essay on colonial churches (originally appearing in Church History, in 1935) was in its time a seminal work; its premises were more exhaustively treated in The New England Mind and other, better-known articles...
...fact is that Charles W. and William Greenleaf were third cousins, so Thomas Hopkinson and T. S. are fifth cousins. Oh, brother...
While Harvard's President (1869-1909) Charles W. Eliot won renown in Boston, his first cousin pioneered in St. Louis. The Rev. William Greenleaf Eliot, who had toiled in a post office dead-letter department before becoming a Unitarian minister, founded not only St. Louis' first Unitarian church and Washington University but also an influential family; among his grandsons is T. S. Eliot. Last week, fittingly enough, Washington University (fulltime enrollment: 6,000) named a Boston Eliot as its twelfth chancellor. He is Thomas Hopkinson Eliot, grandson of Charles W. and fifth cousin of Poet...