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ANGERED by Prometheus' theft of - fire from Mount Olympus. Jupiter sent the first woman. Pandora, to earth. Then he sent Pandora a mysterious box, calculating (rightly) that Pandora's feminine curiosity would force her to peep inside. She did. and released all the sorrows that afflict humanity. See HEMISPHERE, Legacy of Woes...
...criteria of good and evil are to be found in man's nature; man is naturally a social being; therefore the good of society is man's good. Theft, for example, is wrong because it subverts the basis of social life, as does any private injury to another. When there is conflict between the satisfaction of two natural requirements, the rational (therefore the lawful) course is to subordinate the lower to the higher. Thus self-preservation is good, but to refuse to risk one's life when the well-being of society demands it is wrong...
...creative writing fellowship was moody Mitchell J. Strucinski, 35, author of two poignant short stories in the Atlantic. Professor Stegner himself was much impressed. Only one thing gave him pause: Author Strucinski was in Washington State's McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary, finishing a five-year term for mail theft and forgery. Stilling its doubts, Stanford took Strucinski, who came highly recommended not only by an Atlantic editor but also by the warden at McNeil. Last week, when police arrested Strucinski for the tenth time in his life, Stanford realized that the opportunity it gave Student Strucinski had indeed broadened...
...During World War II, while serving in the merchant marine, he was befriended by a literary-minded ship's officer who encouraged him to write. But when the war was over, Strucinski drifted back to crime, and for ten years was continually in trouble, for everything from mail theft to carrying a concealed weapon...
Questioned by FBI agents, Strucinski denied the theft and disappeared. A few days later, 47 library books turned up in a supermarket trash can and a county dump. Then Strucinski gave himself up at FBI headquarters, was arrested for interstate commerce in stolen documents. Last week, out on bail, he was arrested twice for burglary. Said Stanford's crestfallen Professor Stegner: "He was a talented boy. He earned his fellowship honestly." If convicted. Student Strucinski faces a fellowship of up to ten years in federal prison...