Word: emanuele
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British belaboring of MacArthur was, as it has been since the Chinese Communist intervention in Korea, most vociferous of all. Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell told a Labor Party conference in Durham: "It seems .. . that all the speaking nowadays is being done by generals and admirals ... It would be more advantageous if military experts confined themselves to military matters and left politicians to talk about political issues...
...Emanuel Celler, who has served Brooklyn in Congress for the past 14 terms, penned a letter to the New York Times, listing the perfect Congressman's qualities: "The friendliness of a child, the enthusiasm of a teenager, the assurance of a college boy, the tirelessness of a bill collector, the patience of a sacrificing wife, the diplomacy of a wayward husband, the curiosity of a cat, and the good humor of an idiot...
...plot concerns Herr Professor Emanuel Rath, a teacher in the local high school, who finds that Lola Lola is distracting his students. He goes to the "Blue Angel" cabaret to catch the truants, but instead falls in love with Lola Lola. He marries her and joins the troupe of actors. Soon he is reduced to playing stooge for the magician. In one horrifying scene he is made to crow like a rooster on the stage while he watches his wife flirt with the strong man in the wings. He finally goes mad and, after an attempt to kill Lola Lola...
...concertos for three pianos-a complicated, not to say cumbersome, kind of composition on the face of it. Bach Biographer Albert Schweitzer cites a tradition that Bach wrote them (actually for the light-toned clavier) to play with his two eldest sons, Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel. Others believe he wrote them for his students while he was conductor of the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig...
Asked by a Washington reporter to comment on the partition of Ireland, Britain's Minister of Defense Emanuel Shinwell snorted: "I do not intend to mix in U.S. domestic politics...