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Joseph Epstein turns seventy. Nice essay: “Seventy. Odd thing to happen to a five-year-old boy who, only the other day, sang ‘Any Bonds Today,’ whose mother’s friends said he would be a heartbreaker for sure (he wasn’t), who was popular but otherwise undistinguished in high school, who went on to the University of Chicago but long ago forgot the dates of the rule of the Thirty Tyrants in Athens and the eight reasons for the Renaissance, who has married twice and written several books, who somewhere along the way became the grandfather of three, life is but a dream, sha-boom sha-boom, 70, me, go on, whaddya, kiddin’ me?”

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