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💃 "Despite its vicissitudes, ballet may have proved durable in revolutionary cultures from Korea to China because it broke with traditional decorum that emphasized stillness and harmony embodied in the 'slow, orderly, restrained movements' of elite ceremonial culture." 🕺

"While the origins of the Korean War, from crude questions about who first pulled the trigger to complex structural causes, continue to be a source of debate, undeniable is the fact that division was imposed by external forces, and when all-out civil war broke out as a result, outside forces again intervened. This prolonged what would have been a relatively quick end ... thereby exacting millions of civilian deaths."