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Friday, February 20, 2009

Waltz Your Cares Away

More than 5,000 people danced at Vienna's Opera House for this year's Opera Ball, recession or not, as AFP reports:

The glitzy opening ceremony featured the dance of the debutantes, 160 young couples making their debut in Vienna's high society.

Then, with the words "Alles Walzer" (Everybody Waltz), the floor was opened up to the other guests -- Austria's political, business and social elite all dressed to the nines in tailcoats and ballgowns -- who waltzed to the strains of "The Blue Danube."

Here's a look from ZIB24 (with German narration):

"Crisis? What Crisis?" asks the lede of the AFP story. (FYI, that's also the title of a 1975 Supertramp album.) The implication is that now is not a time for revelry. But I argue, Dearest Readers, we need it now as we always have. If anything, it reminds us that the joy of fellowship shall carry us through even the darkest hours.

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