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...IMPORTANT when my father got a nervous breakdown because then my family was split up. My mother was sick too and since we were a nice family, in most ways, we immediately found foster parents for the six kids. I lived in a lower middle class Italian-American family, very nice people. Three years preceding this I had become sort of a bookworm. So I get to this family and they expected me, since I was eldest, to lead the house and to be energetic. I was 13, just about 14. They expected more independence from me and I sorta...
...film had a brief Manhattan art-house booking, and Scorsese was able to raise $24,000 for a 95-minute feature titled I Call First. Evocative of Marty, it cuts off a slice of life about an Italian-American bank teller who falls in love with a girl he meets on the Staten Island ferry, deserts her when he discovers that she was once raped, and returns to the vulgar bachelor world of his street-corner cronies. Flawed and immature in plot and structure, First nonetheless has an exact sense of the Lower Manhattan milieu and some authentic and hard...
...five, Vellucci was in the tightest spot. He was voting to fire a fellow Italian-American, in a city where ethnic ties can still swing a lot of votes. Accordingly, he returned to a tried and true theme: "Save DeGug, save DeGug--how can I save DeGug when I'm trying to save a hospital for the mothers of Cambridge," he roared, recounting how he had tried to have the City's maternity ward moved to the seventh floor of the new City hospital which, he said, DeGuglielmo let Harvard have for "experiments on dogs,...cats...and monkeys...
Prayer v. Pugnacity. The Rev. James Groppi, 36, a Milwaukee-born Italian-American, is remembered by his fellow seminarians as a devout, self-effacing youth. Assigned to St. Boniface Church in 1963 as assistant pastor, Groppi (rhymes with puppy) found himself in the heart of one of the North's most strangely segregated cities-and soon became "chaplain" to the N.A.A.C.P.'s local Youth Council. A summer's march in Selma, Ala., two years ago confirmed him in his militant's role...
Smith came up against a police force commanded by a tough, no-nonsense Italian-American named Dominick A. Spina, 56, who won repute on the virtues that mark the best of American law-enforcement officers: personal courage and political neutrality. A stocky, cigar-chomping man with steely grey hair and temperament, he heads a 1,400-man force that is heavily Italian, but-according to city officials-includes some 400 Negroes as well. Until last week, Spina could claim the ultimate satisfaction in police work: without undue harshness or permissiveness, merely by enforcing the law as it is written...