Word: bernardoni
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...parents and teachers. Run by Edison Schools Inc., a company whose shares are traded on the NASDAQ, the kindergarten-through-eighth-grade facility draws students from four local districts and sports a waiting list with more than 1,000 names on it. "We're a curiosity," says principal Dale Bernardoni, who explains that everyone from student teachers to politicians has come for a visit...
...Catholic spinster (representing the church) made the rounds. Barbi muttered darkly: "Why, those partisans haven't any sense. They will let those monstrous females do all the talking and convince the poor that it's the priest and not the municipality giving them the money." Meanwhile, Father Bernardoni knelt before the Virgin Mary with a group of demure, dark-eyed members of the Catholic Girls' Association, and prayed loudly: "Helper of Virgins, please help Miss Bianca, Miss Filomena, Miss Agata, who walk the streets for your sake in the company of sinners...
...temper: "Hand over that money!" Nello Checchi, a rotund, jolly Communist butcher, came to Barbi's assistance: "I am the only Communist member of your Clock Committee. I know that it has done nothing because," and he pointed a swollen, accusing finger at the priest, "you, Father Bernardoni, wanted it to do nothing." Cried Christian Democrat Gallo: "Why did you sit on the Clock Committee watching it do nothing?" Checchi jumped over the table, shouted: "I wasn't going to do propaganda for Father Bernardoni." The priest interrupted: "At least, have respect for the habit I wear...
...Only Honest Man. But there was more trouble ahead. The Citizens' Committee unanimously agreed that the clock's old position-facing the square-was unthinkable because that would amount to a return of Fascism. Father Bernardoni favored the old position, so that all could see it, and no one would be late for Mass. But the Socialists wanted it turned toward the sea for the fishermen; the Communists wanted it turned toward the harbor for the dockhands: "Deckhands are poor-salaried workers, while fishermen are small proprietors who should buy their own watches." A showdown came again...
...into two parts: a civil ceremony on land, and a religious one at sea. At the first, Rocchi was to unveil the clock, which was wrapped in sackcloth. At the second, the statue of the Virgin Mary would be taken out to sea in a fishing vessel and Father Bernardoni would throw a wreath upon the waves...