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Cornerback Troy Turner capped the uplifts 47 seconds later. Colombo just a week earlier against Columbia had thrown several risky passes for short gains to receivers near the sidelines without being burned. But on a third-and-10 toss to halfback Mark Vignali, standing just in-bounds. Turner stepped in the way and dashed an unobstructed 25 yards to make...
...Troy Tumer 21 pass interception (Papoutidis kick...
Harvard got a single first down, then stalled, 3:32 later, UMass had scored, 4:38 later it was 14:0. Three plays later Crimson quarterback Chuck Colombo threw to Minuteman Troy Turner, who made the score 21-0 with over two minutes left in the first quarter...
...rediscovered the originals of the Homeric epics, Virgil's reputation started to tarnish. The Greeks had clearly borne great gifts to the Roman poet. The Aeneid now looked suspiciously like a pastiche. Its first half, recounting the wandering of Aeneas and his vanquished colleagues after the fall of Troy, owed more than a little to The Odyssey. Its last six books, in which the hero wages war on Italian tribes and fulfills his divine destiny to found the Roman Empire, showed the bloody imprint of The Iliad. Furthermore, Aeneas himself, compared with the Homeric heroes Odysseus and Achilles, began...
...hero no longer creaks under the virtues attributed to him by centuries of interpreters. He is a man doomed to greatness, compelled to propitiate and suffer the capricious gods. Juno brings on the ruin of Troy and the deaths of many of Aeneas' loved ones, then persuades Aeolus, ruler of the winds, to blow up a storm that disperses Aeneas' escaping fleet. He comforts his drenched, surviving companions with words he does not believe: "So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart,/ He feigned hope in his look, and inwardly/ Contained his anguish...