Word: lilienfeld
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the walls of Manhattan's Lilienfeld Galleries suggested a gusty day. On view were works by Maurice de Vlaminck, the "poet of bad weather." There are 18 of them-atmospherically ominous paintings, small French towns under wintry or stormy skies, harbors, fields and flowers...
Bearded Zdansky was a pioneer in modern skiing technique. According to the Widener exhibit he invented the Lilienfeld binding, which is allegedly the 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...