Word: misspent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Legman has remained in Europe, with the exception of a misspent year teaching at the San Diego campus...
...Misspent Youth. The World of Chess, by International Master Anthony Saidy and Senior Master Norman Lessing, is the handsomest and most informative chess picture book ever produced. Its illustrations include Persian paintings, medieval manuscripts, 18th century court scenes, 20th century abstractions, a few sly cartoons and some arresting photographs of the strange cold men who become grand masters...
...text, Saidy has provided some moving excerpts from his diary of a fumbled tournament that cost him a grand master's rating. Lessing has wittily recalled a misspent youth in one of Manhattan's less salubrious chess-and coffeehouses. The authors have also taken care to make the historical sections pert and amusing. "Can you forgive me this indiscretion?" Benjamin Franklin writes to a wealthy Frenchwoman. "Never hereafter shall I consent to begin a game [of chess] in your bathroom...
...achieved some of the fame, honors and money he deserved, and he appeared to enjoy them. Among people, he was an ebullient man with a trumpeting voice and a long, bushy beard-generous, energetic, brash. But he suffered acutely from alcoholism and remorse over what he considered a messy, misspent life. He did not forgive himself: "At fifty-five half-famous & effective, I still feel rotten about myself," he wrote in one of his poems...
...taxpayer is rebelling against the way the tax money is spent. In large cities, the amount of money that is wasted and misspent is appalling. The taxpayer sees working people driven from the city by high rents, while tax money is spent to build new housing for welfare recipients. He sees huge sums of money misappropriated and stolen each year by public officials. He sees more of his taxes being spent on criminals and drug addicts than he can afford to spend on his own family...