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Man has danced upon the verge of a social abyss, and, as previously suggested, the dancing has, both in form and in accompanying music, lost its former grace and reverted to the primitive forms of crude vulgarity.
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Beck reflects on the decline of social grace and the rise of vulgarity in modern society.
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