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...that year, wide publicity was given to the case of Cadet James J. Pelosi, who was subjected to this treatment for 19 months after having been reinstated on a legal technicality, although he had been convicted of an honor code violation. Referring to Verr's experience, Cadet William Andersen, the present head of the Honor Committee, issued a statement declaring that "a significant number of us disagree with Berry's decision." Added Andersen, who is considered a zealot and a martinet by a number of cadets as well as officers, and has been accused of conducting vendettas against...
Cadet Honor Committee Chairman William Andersen argues that the code is weakened when the automatic punishment of expulsion is meted out without consideration given to the circumstances of the violation. When asked to vote on the issue last February, 55% of the cadet corps were in favor of easing the code if there were mitigating circumstances. The measure failed to carry, however, because it fell short of the required two-thirds majority...
Eternal Juvenile. The applause brought little joy. "I have imagined so much and had so little," Andersen noted in his diary. That complaint sounds like the whine of a child - and, in fact, Andersen remained an eternal juvenile...
...hinted at fame. Benefactors sent the adolescent to school, where Hans decided to become a playwright. "You can stand pain if you can write about it," he declared to a friend. The fledgling author became, says Bredsdorff, "a man of deep and apparently irreconcilable contrasts." Heinrich Heine, who observed Andersen in action, called the writer "a tall thin man with hollow sunken cheeks [whose] manner reveals the sort of fawning servility that princes like." All his adult life, Andersen oscillated between vanity and self-abnegation, pride and humility. He was a Christian who rejected the main dogmas of religion...
...time he was 40, the little fairy tales had propelled Hans to the courts and palaces of Europe; in America, he was given a place with the Brothers Grimm. The comparison slighted the Dane. The Germans had collected their stories in the Black Forest; Andersen had pulled his from his brain...