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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

Topics: Been Interest Man Many Members Modernity Restless Result Seems Society Sophistication Traditional Traditions Where

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The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.

~George W. S. Trow

Topics: Chronicle Context Establish Existing False Finally Television Work

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Children are the beneficiaries - and also the victims - of the theater of various moments.

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Topics: Also Beneficiaries Children Moments Theater Various Victims

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Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

~George W. S. Trow

Topics: Any Eat Ever Felt Hat Head Irony Me Mine Necessary Necessity Out Owned Protective Through Wish Without Worn Would

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The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

~George W. S. Trow

Topics: Adult Agreements Childish Competence Effectively Enforce Men Most Most Powerful Power Powerful Those Used Were Who

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To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful actions of certain men but with the processes of choice and preference.

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Topics: Actions Certain Choice Clear Growing Growing Up Had History Men Person Power Powerful Preference Processes Up

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Wonder was the grace of the country. Any action could be justified by that: the wonder it was rooted in. Period followed period, and finally the wonder was that things could be built so big. Bridges, skyscrapers, fortunes, all having a life first in the marketplace, still drew on the force of wonder.

~George W. S. Trow

Topics: Action Any Big Bridges Built Could Country Drew Finally First Followed Force Fortunes Grace Having Justified Life Marketplace Period Rooted Skyscrapers Still Things Wonder

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It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.

~George W. S. Trow

Topics: Advanced Backward Begins Belong Choice Circumstances Class Coherence Difficult Eclectic Ends Many Nation Often Process Thing Troubling Which

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The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps.

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Mehmet Ertegun died in 1944. President Roosevelt sent his body back to Turkey on the U.S.S. Missouri. Mehmet Ertegun and President Roosevelt had had a cordial relationship, and, indeed, Mehmet Ertegun may have helped insure that Turkey did not ally itself with Germany, as it had in the First World War.

~George W. S. Trow

Topics: Ally Back Body Did Died First First World First World War Germany Had Helped His Indeed Insure Itself May Missouri President Relationship Roosevelt Sent Turkey War World World War

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: September 28th, 1943

Died: November 24th, 2006

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