Word: gottlieb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unabashed, last week men were still dreaming up panaceas. Only occasionally did they have a wild and honest ring, as when William J. Gottlieb, president of the Automobile Club of New York, jokingly suggested closing down all bridges and tunnels leading to Manhattan and declaring a state of siege. For the most part, man still pinned his hopes on the traffic tag and public works. New York's Police Commissioner Arthur Wallander thought things could be improved if taxicabs were shortened...
Vienna-born Dentist Bernhard Gottlieb and three colleagues at Baylor University reported a treatment which they claimed was even better than sodium fluoride: a solution of zinc chloride and potassium ferrocyanide, which plugs microscopic cracks in the teeth against bacterial invasion...
...Mozart fans who expected another Don Giovanni or Marriage of Figaro, it was a disappointment. The Abduction from the Seraglio is a trifle in which half of the dialogue is spoken, not sung. Its story (supplied by Librettist Gottlieb Stephanie, who borrowed it from a comedy by Dramatist Christoph Bretzner, who probably borrowed it from an English comic opera called The Captive) tells of an English cavalier and his manservant who try to liberate the cavalier's lady love and her maid from a Turkish pasha's harem...
Others, like Adolph Gottlieb, Alexander Calder and Seattle's Mark Tobey included recognizable chunks of nature, like pieces of mosaic, in the careful wreckage of their pictures. Usually (as in Gottlieb's Pictograph), the symbols seemed more important than the paintings...
...Alan Gottlieb...