Stumbling Blocks and Stepping Stones

In the years just after the end of World War II Paolo Bruni and Nicola “Nunzi” D’Annunzio are two goombahs coming of age sexually in an Italian-American neighborhood in Rochester, N.Y. They are the first in their immigrant families offered the prospect of a college education when they are both are admitted to St. Issac Jogues Jesuit High, a new school founded in their city in 1954 by the renowned teaching order of the Society of Jesus.