Word: truants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jack Fadden was born in 1899. He was a high-spirited boy who, at times, overstepped a bit. "I always have been rebellious against authority. The truant officer was a regular visitor at our house. In fact, I may have been the original delinquent," he said...
...looking for Francois?" Roland Truffaut asked the truant officer. "Go look for him where he always is-at the movies." Even as a child, Francois Truffaut made cinema his preferred vocation: the life he led up until his first feature was just so much prologue before the credits. The son of a Parisian architect, he had a history of juvenile delinquency and truancy that ended in a short reformatory stretch-an experience that was to become the basis for his first film. As an adolescent film fanatic, he came to the attention of André Bazin, dean of French movie...
CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). The season's première is Part 1 of Testadirapa, an Italian film about a 19th century youngster who lives an idyllic life until the authorities rule him a truant. Kukla, Fran and Ollie are hosts...
Forlorn but dignified, the Plaza Hotel faced the mob. All morning long the radio had been urging every potential truant in New York to show up at 59th Street and Fifth. ("The Beatles are now over Newfoundland; touchdown minus 71 minutes on our Beatles Countdown.") By two o'clock there were 3,000 girl teenagers, 1,000 boy teenagers, and 13 press agents...
...They are decadent, degenerate, and morally corrupt. Many children of rich families play truant the whole day long and spend their time in clubs drinking, merry-making, and indulging in orgies of debauchery. Some of them even operate clubs themselves so that they can loaf all day long. A Harvard University student went as far as openly bringing in a group of prostitutes and running a brothel inside the school. To girl students the Harvard campus means a prohibited area to be dreaded. Unescorted girls dare not walk on it. It has been the scene of robberies, molestation...