Word: george
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This afternoon at 4 o'clock there will be an illustrated lecture by E. M. M. Warburg '30 on the sculpture of Georg Kolbe, in the Great Hall of the Germanic Museum. Warburg has been teaching Fine Arts at Bryn Mawr College and has lectured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence...
...State commission investigated the 76 deaths at Lübeck, held they were due to "omission of laboratory precautions" in preparing the vaccine. At the trial Professor Georg Deycke, director of the Lübeck municipal hospital, sought to take all the blame. He said his belief in the usefulness of BCG was "a scientific error," declared subsequent tests had convinced him that the vaccine was a perfect means of introducing tuberculosis into the bodies of the vaccinated children. Weeping, he begged that the other three defendants be freed, said the judges need feel no scruples in taking his life...
...hotel cubicle for his yearly interview and for a day his long-standing fame flares again. People who all their lives have lived by means of the devices he has invented and inspired, people who have forgotten there were an Alessandro Volta, an André Marie Ampère, a Georg Simon Ohm in, a Charles Augustin de Coulomb, a Luigi Galvani or a James Watt, are reminded that there still is a Nikola Tesla (pronounced Tcshlah) who long ago rave them the Tesla induction motor which made alternating current practical, and the Tesla transformer which steps up oscillating currents to high...
...conscience-ridden Marie reads passages on adultery from the New Testa ment, Composer Berg has written music which critics unanimously pronounce the most powerful in any opera for years. Like his leading character it is neither lofty nor noble but it effectively describes Wozzeck, like the Wozzeck in Georg Buchner's play (TIME, March 16), as any downtrodden wretch tortured beyond endurance. A per fect ending is the epilog in which Marie's little son hears the news from children in the street, goes on unconcernedly riding his hobby-horse...
Wozzeck's plot is surprisingly old to be the perfect counterpart of Berg's ultra-modern score. It was written nearly 100 years ago by Georg Büchner, a German poet-scientist who had ideas far ahead of his time. Büchner died at 23 in Zurich where he earned a doctorate with a treatise on the nervous system of fish. He left three plays: Leonce and Lena, written while authorities were hunting him for his revolutionary sympathies; Danton's Tod, given in the U. S. a few seasons ago by Max Reinhardt...