Word: truant
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...others described Oswald's upbringing rather differently. Said John Carro, once probation officer for Oswald, who was a chronic truant during the time he lived in New York: "I got the feeling that the mother was so wrapped up in her own problems she never really saw her son's. I got the feeling that what the boy needed most was someone who cared. He was just a small, lonely, withdrawn kid who looked to me like he was heading for trouble...
...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...
...Truant Pet. The Two Old Maids is a story about two aging sisters who live in shabby seclusion with their ancient housekeeper and a beloved pet-a mettlesome monkey named Tombo, who, "though a eunuch, was, after all, the male of the house." One day the Mother Superior of the neighboring convent brings alarming news: Tombo has been seen stealing into the chapel at night where he ate the consecrated hosts, tried to say Mass, and even urinated on the altar. It is clear to one sister that he must die. The old maids consult two priests, the older...
...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...