Some articles on italian heritage, italians:
... (April 7, 1897 – October 12, 1968) was an American jurist, politician, and naval officer of Italian heritage ... Musmanno spent much of his life interested in the plight of the working man, and in his Italian heritage ... He also gave an account of his 1932 debate with Clarence Darrow, "The Story of Italians in America," and "Glory The Dream Abraham Lincoln, before and after Gettysburg ...
Famous quotes containing the words heritage and/or italian:
“There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man’s life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“Semantically, taste is rich and confusing, its etymology as odd and interesting as that of “style.” But while style—deriving from the stylus or pointed rod which Roman scribes used to make marks on wax tablets—suggests activity, taste is more passive.... Etymologically, the word we use derives from the Old French, meaning touch or feel, a sense that is preserved in the current Italian word for a keyboard, tastiera.”
—Stephen Bayley, British historian, art critic. “Taste: The Story of an Idea,” Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things, Random House (1991)