Word: christianias
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...Here there is no longer talk of Nature, only eccentric fanaticism, delirium-drunk moods and fever-sick hallucinations." So said the conservative Norwegian Aftenposten, outraged at the show of some 50 oils by young Edvard Munch (pronounced Moohnk) in the summer of 1892 in Christiania (now Oslo). The storm of criticism was all that Munch, then 28 and just back from Paris, needed to become a scandalous success in the gloomy provincial city. Berlin painters promptly invited him to show in the German capital, and the scandal was even greater, splitting the Union of Berlin Artists permanently into two camps...
...Theodore Roosevelt received the Nobel Peace Prize. This is what he said about Peace at Christiania, Norway: '. . . Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy...
...winter maneuvers on the snow-covered slopes of Mount Hakkota, and the Japanese Minister to Sweden rushed a shipment of Swedish skiing equipment back to his native land for rescue work. In the succeeding decades, the Japanese began to get the hang of the herringbone climb and the Christiania turn, and skiing became one of Japan's top winter sports. Last week, Japan's skiers staged a big two-day national ski meet. The ski-happy Japanese hauled 50 freight cars full of fresh snow out of chilly northern Niigata and, as shown here, heaped it atop...
...first efficient harness. Zdansky, moreover, was an ardent exponent of the Alpine School, which came to blows more than once with the Norwegian school. At the turn of the century the dispute between the two schools was partially mitigated by a mutual acceptance of the telemark and the open christiania as the only proper turns. A photograph of the Kandahar race of 1930 shows innumerable different schools, all acceptable...
...Originally the orthodox ski technique, Telemark turns (accomplished by sliding one ski far forward so that it guides the other into the turn) are practical only in deep snow, lost favor when the Christiania technique was developed...