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...warfare), Murphying (a form of pimping), jugging (fornication) and stinging (armed robbery). Then Brown moved downtown, found a square job, took up the jazz piano and earned a high school diploma attending classes at night. This autobiography is Brown's testament, not to his redemption but to his misspent youth. Nowhere does he explain what inner strength rescued him from himself; the reader must consult the dust jacket to learn that Brown went on to graduate from Howard University, and will enter law school this fall. Instead. Brown sifts steadfastly and self-consciously through the dung heap...
...Farouk "symbolized a classically misspent life" [March 26]! O TIME! Give me Farouk's life-and I shall take his death! Give me 30-room hotel suites, belly dancers and beauty queens; make me spend my nights gambling $100,000 away; make me know every call girl in Rome by name. And then, TIME, give me that sordid death-I shall give you my social security, my medicare, my rocking chair, and my clean, "well-spent" past, present and future...
Somebody once said that "proficiency at billiards is a sign of a misspent youth." If so, the place to study late-stage delinquency last week was Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, site of the World Pocket Billiard Championship...
...flabby, 45-year-old Farouk symbolized the gross results of a classically misspent life. Last week he died as he had lived - gorging himself on fine food with a willowy blonde at his side. The end came in Rome's Ile de France restaurant on the ancient Aurelian Way near Vatican City. Accompanied by blonde Anna Maria Gatti, 28, Farouk dined at midnight on oysters, roast lamb, cake and fruit. At 1:30 in the morning, as he enjoyed a postprandial cigar, Farouk said he felt faint, clutched at his throat and fell forward on the table. An ambulance...
...Continent." Duty Done. One of the few statesmen to achieve undisputed immortality in his lifetime, Sir Winston is perhaps the only world leader who has ever written history as memorably as he made it. His chronicles of the First and Second World Wars, and the West's misspent years between, are without parallel either as history or, as he saw them, a distillation of "thirty years of action and advocacy that comprise and express my life-effort." Thanks to a deep sense of the past and a lofty view of the future, Churchill has always been a poet...