Word: italian-american
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...nineteenth century, there was a great influx of Southern and Eastern European immigrants coming [to America]," Lively says. "The allure of Columbus was only partly based on the fact that he was Catholic; he was also the first successful Italian-American at a time when Italian immigrants were looking for successful Italian-American role models...
...When I was walking through the Common, I saw a monument erected by the Italian-American Society and one celebrating Polish heroes," Flaherty said. "Their contributions are significant and shouldn't be ignored, but I couldn't help but wonder why there is no monument to the contributions of Irish-Americans...
...University of Chicago) and a reputation for gregariousness and charm. So in 1986 the Reagan Administration believed that the 50-year-old circuit court of appeals judge was the perfect candidate to lead a new conservative majority on the high court into the 21st century. That he was an Italian-American father of nine whose appointment would please an ethnic constituency was a bonus. At the time, Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone predicted in the ABA Journal that his former associate's collegial spirit would help build consensus among the Justices: "He has the personal skills, intelligence, patience and manner...
...this country when he was a teenager," he once wrote. "Not only had he never profited from the sweat of any black man's brow, I don't think he had ever seen a black man." The only child of an Italian-immigrant father who became a professor of Romance languages at Brooklyn College and of an Italian-American mother who taught public school, Scalia remains determinedly anti-elitist--he dines in a downtown pizza joint and keeps his name listed in the phone book. He can be a forceful advocate for those working-class white males he described...
...forming a traditional family in our time. Don Juan has lost his mother and forms a kind of surrogate dysfunctional family with Jack and his wife. His real parents are, of course more exotic. Through his sessions with Jack, we discover that Don Juan's father was an Italian-American "dance king" from Queens, New York who emigrated to Mexico with his son. "Don Juan" isn't smart enough to satirize this colorful background, as "Strictly Ballroom" did so brilliantly. Instead, Don Juan, with his mixed Italian, Spanish, Mexican and American ancestry, is a posterchild for cultural assimilation...