Word: calvert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last salute is snapped, many a middie returns to the not-so-traditional company of Machiavelli, Malthus or Montesquieu-required reading in such brand-new majors as literature, economics and political science. The marriage of military discipline and academic freedom is uneasy at best, but Rear Admiral James F. Calvert, now in his second year as academy superintendent, has proved himself a talented matchmaker...
From the start, Calvert, 49, knew he was dealing with a generation "more sophisticated and better educated" than any before it. And more skeptical: Viet Nam had done little for the image of the military profession, and the Navy was still under the cloud of the Pueblo affair. At Annapolis, Calvert found the engineering-oriented curriculum sadly outdated-symptomatic of the "cultural mismatch" between a hidebound service academy and the young men-black as well as white-he wanted to attract. Some black middies (there are now 38) are even jeered when they try to recruit others back home...
...John Kelleher, English; Rogers Albriton, Philosophy; Zeph Stewart, Classics; Harry T. Levin, Comparative Literature; Alan E. Heimert, English; Herbert A. Bloch, Classics; Donald A. Stone, Romance Languages and Literature; Willard V. O. Quine, Philosophy; Calvert C. Watkins, Linguistics...