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Life After Seventy The Call to Keep Learning
Editor Austin Latchaw notes Dr. Lyman Powell’s book The Second Seventy argues age is not a limit but a phase for selective, meaningful work. Historical figures from Voltaire to Verdi showed continued achievement past 70, while Powell urges purposeful living, mental engagement, and philosophical resilience for later years.
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Voltaire
Michelangelo
Lacyde
Kant
Tintoretto
Verdi
Lamarck
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Cato
Goethe
Faust
Tennyson
Titian
Lepanto
Commodore Vanderbilt
Broadcasting Magazine
Lyman P. Powell
Roosevelt
Federal Supreme Court
Powell
Macrae-Smith Company
Philadelphia
Protestant Episcopal Church
Hobart College
William Smith College
New York University
United States
Canada
Kansas City
Dr. Powell
Elmer N. Powell
Walter A. Powell
Jackson County
Delaware
Powell Brothers
Cornell University
Rockefeller Foundation
Vassar College
New York State Welfare Department
Victoria
Christian Heine
Lewis
George Ade
Ida Tarbell
Connie Mack
Arthur Brisbane
Joffre
Germany
von Hin
Denburg
Foch
Clemenceau
France
Lloyd George
England
Opie Read
Lincoln Steffens
John D. Rockefeller
William Gillette