The lanky Mr. Gottlieb proved an affable proselytizer for these works in his insightful and witty spoken introductions.
He was fluently creative, making characteristically witty spoken asides, on tributes to Marty Paich and Woody Herman with the Los Angeles Jazz Orchestra in 2004, and became a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and received a Living Legend jazz award from the Kennedy Center in 2007.
Witty spoke with ScienceInsider on 30 March, and with the candor of a CEO who isn't worried about job security.
Witty was speaking as the pharmaceutical company unveiled its results for the third quarter, which revealed that global sales grew modestly at 1%.
Witty was speaking after the pharmaceutical company unveiled a 6% rise in 2015 sales to £24bn and stuck to its target to return to double-digit growth in core earnings in 2016, following a 15% decline last year.
Try to speak like they do, whether it's just being really witty, or speaking with an accent.
There are bravura descriptions of landscapes and cities, shrewd dissections of human motivations and self-deceptions, convincing and sometimes very witty dialogue spoken by characters from wildly different backgrounds.
If you're a witty feminist, speak up and let your thoughts be heard.
And he charmed audiences with a witty and extemporaneous speaking style honed over 10 years in the pulpit as a preacher and local televangelist before he entered politics; he is a former governor of Arkansas.
By tireless canvassing, witty public speaking and a finger-snap memory ("How is your mother's arthritis, Mrs Smith?"), his brown homburg like an exclamation among the hay-bales and hedges, he narrowly won back the rural constituency of North Devon in 1959.
