by Bill Dal Cerro | Apr 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
After getting boos – along with Germany – in late February for balking against harsh sanctions against Russia via its invasion of Ukraine, Italy has more than come around. The Ukrainians who have already lived and worked there since the mid-2000s, mostly domestic...
by John Mancini | Apr 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
In Issue X (1990) of The Italic Way, we explored the Italic connections in the Bible. In particular how ancient Italians, as Roman officials, were involved in the birth of Christianity. We are all familiar with Emperor Caesar Augustus calling for a census and...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Apr 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
What got lost in the Will Smith/Chris Rock smack-down at the Oscar ceremony is the “surprise” win for CODA, an indie movie about a deaf American fishing family on the East Coast (Gloucester, MA). Actually, indie in this sense only means they had to finance...
by John Mancini | Apr 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
Our Almanac reminds us that Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci, and Verrazzano weren’t the only Italians this nation ought to be thankful for. On April 9th, 1682 Enrico Tonti and Frenchman Robert La Salle arrived at the Gulf of Mexico after traversing waterways from the Great...
by John Mancini | Apr 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
A London-based research outfit called YouGov matches perceptions to actual stats. For example, panels of volunteers surveyed in the United States think that Blacks are 41% of the U.S population when the Census says they are only 12%. The reason for the...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Apr 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
So was the inevitable reply of Felix Unger from Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple when responding to yet another mess created by his roommate, Oscar Madison. And so is this my reply to the annual Academy Awards ceremony, which managed to be doubly insulting to...
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