“Rabbouni”

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“Rabboni,” by Gutzon Borglum, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC. (own work)

It is one of the most soul-stirring moments in film, the point in 1962’s The Miracle Worker when the young Helen Keller, played by Patty Duke, blind and deaf since infancy, understands that the finger manipulations that have been pounded into her hand by Anne Sullivan,...