Word: emanuele
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Like Cohen, Greenhouse also teaches at the Manhattan School and at Stony Brook; he resides in Long Island. Greenhouse has studied with the world's greatest cellists, including Emanuel Feuermann and Pablo Casals. The latter taught Greenhouse in France just after World War II for free--in exchange for his pledge to support the Spanish Republican cause. After spending some years as a soloist. Greenhouse opted for a somewhat less draining ensemble career. When his friends Menahem Pressler and Daniel Guilet approached him in 1955, he agreed to join them for eight to ten concerts. He has been a part...
...DIED. Emanuel Celler, 92, doughty, witty, longtime Democratic Congressman from Brooklyn who over a 25-term House career became one of Washington's most powerful urban voices; in Brooklyn. A whisky and wine merchant's son who thrived on New York City's combative clubhouse politics, Celler went to Capitol Hill in 1923, and over the next 50 years-until upset in a Democratic primary by Elizabeth Holtzman-became one of Congress's most influential big-city liberals. As chairman of the House Judiciary Committee for more than two decades, he was instrumental in shaping...