Word: truant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discovery was turned up in New York City, where the Oswald family lived for a time. Lee Oswald was a poor student and a chronic truant in his early teens. A psychiatric report concluded that he had schizophrenic tendencies and was "potentially dangerous," recommended that the boy be committed to an institution-but the city Family Court turned down the recommendation. Many of the other details of Oswald's early life-his disgruntled Marine Corps years, his 33-month stay in Moscow during an unsuccessful attempt to get Soviet citizenship, his marriage there to Hospital Pharmacist Marina Prusakova...
...David Rittenhouse) has considerably less luck. I have never seen this part well performed, and the obvious reason is Hal's damnably difficult problem of how to approach the moment where he chides "his truant youth with such a grace/As if he mastered there a double spirit/Of teaching and of learning instantly." Rittenhouse has the necessary grace both to enjoy the truant life and to reject it; what he lacks, I imagine, is simply the impression of immense energy ready to be turned to great deeds...
Dismayed by the lack of seriousness among Harvard students, Ch'ang notes that "many children of the rich families play truant...spend their time in clubs, drinking, merry-making and indulging in orgies of debauchery...
...Further, they are rumor carriers, trouble carriers, weapons carriers, narcotic carriers and sometimes disease carriers. They are promiscuous, truant and violent. They participate in petty theft, have out-of-wedlock pregnancies, and use alcohol and narcotics excessively...
...that matter, does his "clear but exaggerated picture of our American society: slums of engineering, boondoggling production, chaotic congestion, tribes of middlemen . . . no patriotism, an empty nationalism bound for a cataclysmically disastrous fnish, wise opinion swamped . . . youth idle and truant, youth sexually suffering and sexually obsessed, youth without goals...