Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under those grim stone turrets at West Point, buttoned-up, close-cropped cadets still "hup, two, three, four" in precision parades. Unchanged in 30 years are the slate-grey cadet uniforms, and it is still forbidden for a cadet to hold a girl's hand when he walks her on campus. But beneath the surface sameness, the Point within the past five years has undergone a drastic, evolutionary change to match the new ways of what its teachers like to call "the profession of arms." Harsh hazing and pointless indignities have given way to a more mature approach...
...Auden and Edward Albee, plays devil's advocate by roaring at his classes: "Army officers are just machines, aren't they? If they're told to go out and massacre the innocents, they go out and massacre the innocents!" He grins when a cadet politely but heatedly objects, "We just can't accept that...
Outside the giant fieldhouse, the grayness of the military academy was even grayer than usual in a shroud of fog. But inside, Cadet fans cheered ecstatically as Army's squad, led by a tiny sophomore named Van Evans, turned in an incredible all-around performance to clinch the meet before the last three events were...
...Crimson had lost to Navy but had whipped Army in the Heps. Yesterday, things were switched around. Cadet Jim Warner, injured most of the season, improved on his Heps time by 1:16. And Navy's Buzz Lawlor, the Heps champion, pulled a stitch yesterday and hobbled home in 143rd position...
Harum-Scarum. Later he took more interest, especially as Winston was becoming more expensive. Winston had scraped into Sandhurst but only into the cavalry, which was not expected to have as much brains as the infantry. Horses and the higher style of living required of a cavalry cadet would cost Lord Randolph an extra ?200 a year. Winston, high-spirited as always, had the nerve to express pleasure at his feat in getting into Sandhurst at all. His reward was a letter from his imperious papa which must rank as one of the nastiest ever written by a father...