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...Renaissance preferred Odysseus, the archetypically educated, reasonable man. Here was amplitude of mind rather than the highest pitch of heroic intensity. The Renaissance was obsessed with the Odyssey's apparent lesson that magnitude of mind ensured mortal serenity. They preferred the radiance of learning to the blaze of heroic will. As we shall see, Enobarbus's opposition of will and reason is in many ways the Renaissance equivalent of Achilles and Odysseus. The resourceful Odysseus and brilliant Achilles are tragic archetypes for order and perturbation, longevity and death...
Last week a blaze believed to be set by arsonists swept through the student union building, causing $2,000,000 in damages despite the efforts of students who helped firemen carry out art objects and furnishings. Nor did the terrorists confine their activities to arson. Snipers shot at firemen who came to fight a fire in an off-campus building, drilled three holes in a fire engine...
Yesterday morning, a small fire flared briefly in the Yale Law School Library. The blaze was extinguished after doing $2000 damage. Preliminary reports indicate a strong possibility of arson. a fact which has served to increase the tension here...
Swigert is no stranger to in-flight emergencies. Once, while flying with the Air Force in Korea, he landed his plane in a driving squall, crashed into a road grader someone had left on the runway and walked away unscratched from the blaze that demolished his aircraft. Another time, as he was landing at Buckley Air Field near Denver, his brakes failed and his plane slammed into the base's arresting cables, but he escaped unhurt. Although he was a last-minute replacement on Apollo 13's star-crossed trip, Swigert showed great skill in improvising new emergency...
Earlier in the evening, demonstrators hurled a firebrand through the shattered front window of the Coop, but others pulled the burning board out of the building before the blaze spread...