Word: keller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solitary thinker, sitting for from the inhospitable blinding turmoll of the university. The first essay in this volume is subtitled "How I Discovered the Delta Factor Sitting at My Desk One Summer Day in Louisiana in the 1950's Thinking About an Event in the Life of Helen Keller on Another Summer Day in Alabama in 1887," and you get the feeling that's how he does his best work, meditating in his Covington, Louisiana home on the state of languages and the world. If his antipathy toward the major centers of learning seems unscholarly and unprofessional, it's meant...
...mild twenty-year obsession" on Percy's part. It separates man from beast; it gives him a unique tool for understanding his condition. Percy associates it with another obsession of his, the sort of inexplicable, poetic joy that everyone experiences from time to time--this he calls the "Helen Keller phenomenon," because it is the way Helen Keller felt when, later than most people, she first connected the word water with the actual item. But he also blames language for twentieth-century man's estrangement from the natural world, by naming a thing. Percy feels, we subdue it, we reduce...
...Phyllis Keller, affirmative action coordination for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said yesterday that no one has protected the Arthurs appointment...
Twenty-five years later the daughter, now grown up, meets a boy, both played again by Keller and Denner. The meeting itself is extraordinary, a moment of strangeness and promise. It occurs on board a train loaded with passengers who are the devastated victims of concentration camps. The familiarity of the scene, the desolation of the faces, is awful. Yet Lelouch challenges our usual response by having a radio play Glenn Miller's Moonlight Serenade in the background. The song throws the scene into starker relief. The passengers are revealed not as victims but as survivors being ushered into...
...offspring of the couple on the train is a young woman (Keller, naturally) of great means and unhappy passions. The man she eventually meets (Andre Dussollier) is a commercial director turned feature film maker who possesses the sort of airy style one inevitably associates with Lelouch himself. And Now My Love mostly has to do with bringing these two prospective paramours together. Lelouch relentlessly follows their separate stories until he sits his lovers down next to each other on a flight from Paris to New York. We have it from the director himself that a grand passion is born right...