Word: macpherson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JAMES MACPHERSON...
...both write poetry too. Between Mar's visits, Hilary sandwiches an interview with two reporters from a literary magazine. This gives Poet-Novelist Sarton, who is just the other side of 53, an excuse to review Hilary's life and attachments (Phillippa the governess, Nurse Gillespie, Willa MacPherson, Dorothea and Madeleine HiRose) and gush about lyrical art ("Intensity commands form"). Absolutely nothing else happens. The title page identifies this book as a novel, Miss Sarton's ninth...
...major impetus for this Draconian doctrine traces back to 1911 when an upstate New York gravestone dealer named Donald MacPherson was driving his new Buick at 15 m.p.h. A wheel flew off, the car flipped, and MacPherson wound up in the hospital. He sued the Buick Co. for negligence in failing to inspect the defective wheel. Buick raised what was then a plausible defense: it had never sold MacPherson anything directly, since he bought from a dealer. Therefore, said Buick, it could not be held liable to MacPherson for negligence...
...famous opinion by Judge (later Supreme Court Justice) Benjamin Cardozo, however, the New York Court of Appeals upheld MacPherson and extended manufacturers' liability to third parties for any product "reasonably certain to place life and limb in danger when negligently made." The decision left intact one vital requirement: the plaintiff must prove that the manufacturer was negligent...
ROME 12 NOON by Kenneth Macpherson. 319 pages. Coward-McCann...