by John Mancini | Nov 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
The other day while watching a History Channel documentary on ancient Rome the narrator recounted how the emperors Caligula and Nero were “Italians” as opposed to the more enlightened ones such as Trajan and Hadrian who came from Spain. True enough, but both Trajan...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Nov 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
You’ve heard the phrase “the Irish gift of gab” but Italians run them a close second. The Italic people not only express themselves passionately via words, too, but help their thoughts along with arm-and-hand-gestures. In fact, some gestures are so...
by John Mancini | Nov 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
He is known affectionately as Dr. NO because of his scientific research into Nitric Oxide (NO) which earned him the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1998. We noted that achievement at the time in an issue of The Italic Way; but I am prompted to write about Dr. Louis...
by John Mancini | Nov 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
My grandson is preparing for his First Communion, enrolled in a CCD class. As a 7-year-old he is slowly being introduced to life’s requirements – homework, bedtime, and internet limits. To many kids nowadays religion is an option and morality a multiple...
by John Mancini | Nov 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
This past week a local school on Long Island honored the memory of cartoon illustrator Al Plastino. He was one of many Italian Americans who crafted the comic books that every boy in the country grew up with — Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, The Flash, and the...
by John Mancini | Oct 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
The other day, the cable station TCM aired The Joe Louis Story a biopic from 1953. Like The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) both the subjects of the bios were still alive at the time. In fact, Robinson played himself in the 1950 movie. The two films were tributes to...
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