To understand this trend we must follow its roots, ones that go back as far the 1960s as seen with Douglas F.

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They will also do badly if the tree has old, gnarled roots, rather than young, succulent ones.

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Its artistic roots lay in surrealism, its philosophical ones in existentialism, even though Debord spat on both.

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Whereas former generations of nouveaux riches assimilated fairly quickly, marrying native aristocrats and often entering politics, modern ones split their time between countries, acquiring British polish but not sending down deep roots.

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