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A ripe old age; Who, me retire.
Byline: Judith Jones
Some years ago at a Century Club gathering of members of the Kennedy cabinet, I heard John Kenneth Galbraith speak. An elegant, wonderfully articulate, and witty octogenarian, he knew whereof he spoke when he warned, Beware of the still word. Are you still working? Are you still writing? Are you still thinking? . . . Are you still alive?
Now that I am fourscore years and more, those words have come back to haunt me. How often I am met with a puzzled look when I confess that, yes, I am still working-as an editor at Knopf.
Why do I continue to work?
To me, it is more a question of "Why retire?" I find that the very ...
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