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...People who can see have a legal duty to protect the blind. In Upper Darby, Pa., James Argo, a blind broom peddler, entered an office building to hawk his wares for the 40th time in ten years. This time, workmen had removed the floor. Argo plunged 18 feet, suffered serious injuries, and won a jury verdict of $27,500. Rejecting the landlord's appeal, the Pennsylvania court ruled that henceforth landlords must foresee potential dangers to the state's 15,000 blind citizens. Argo, held the court, was entitled to the simplest imaginable safeguard: "The defendants could have...
WHAT PASSING BELL (Argo). If war exposes the beast in man, it sometimes brings out the best in literature, from The Trojan Women to War and Peace. This recording marches to the distant drum of World War I, and contains some of the finest and most moving war poetry ever written, notably by Britain's Wilfred Owen, who was killed in action in November 1918, and Siegfried Sassoon, who survived. The verbal montage of irony, pathos, and ribald gallantry is much akin to last season's searing musical, Oh What a Lovely...
...CROWD (Argo) that collects around the solidly welded, ten-year-old Ramsey Lewis trio is quite a sizable mob. This LP, recorded live at the Bohemian Caverns in Washington, D.C., has soared up the pop charts, past such rock 'n' run regulars as the Rolling Stones and Herman's Hermits. The title song has the usu al rocking beat, but Pianist Lewis also dispenses old-fashioned swing, bland harmonies and light-fingered embellishments in such well-worth-repeating pieces as Duke Ellington's Come Sunday and Buddy Johnson's Since I fell...
From Jason's Argo to the America's Cup winner Constellation, good ship architecture has always depended heavily on intuition. But feel-of-the-sea design is increasingly tested and checked by the complex sciences of fluid dynamics and molecular stress. Nowhere in the U.S. are ancient skills and new techniques taught more tautly than at New York's Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, a Long Island college whose 70 students get room, board, books and tuition free, and almost always wind up at the top of their profession...
HOMAGE TO SHAKESPEARE (Argo). Assorted tributes on his 400th anniversary by poets, musicians and scholars on one side of the record, and on the other, brief readings from his later works by 16 leading Shakespearean actors, including excerpts from two plays now on the boards: Paul Scofield reading Lear's reconciliation with Cordelia and Sir Laurence Olivier delivering Othello's speech to the Senate...