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For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.

George W. S. Trow

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George W. S. Trow
Age: 63 †
Born: 1943
Born: September 28
Died: 2006
Died: November 24
Essayist
Novelist
Greenwich
Connecticut
George William Swift Trow
Jr.
Members
Discredited
Results
Modernity
Interest
Sophistication
Society
Traditions
Seems
Restless
Many
Traditional
Men
Result
Tradition

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