Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unheroic hero: a vacillating, tortured, sour-faced working man (Lamberto Maggiorani) whose only talent is to attract misery. He and his small son (Enzo Staiola) spend a grey Sunday scouring Rome for the stolen bicycle that is necessary to the father's bill-posting job. Their thief-chasing Odyssey takes them through various institutions (soup kitchen, church, bordello, political meeting, fortuneteller's), supposed to inspire or comfort the miserable. After being treated as a bumbling nuisance at each of these havens, the hero tries unsuccessfully to steal a bicycle, and then tearfully walks home to a hopeless existence...
...dimmed lights of Albanian truck convoys moving up & down from the border, carrying off the wounded and bringing in reinforcements. Outside a Greek headquarters tent sat forlorn groups of Red prisoners awaiting interrogation. One of them, a former member of the Greek seamen's union, told of his odyssey. He had been recruited by the Communists in France, then shipped on to join the rebels via Prague and Yugoslavia. "What could I do? I had no money, so I joined up," he explained. "Kaipali Grammos" (Grammos once again), said one hardbitten, stunted little Greek soldier to a U.S. correspondent...
...congratulate you on your recognition of science fiction in your review of A Martian Odyssey [TIME, May 30] ? It is seldom that an S-F book receives mention in publications not exclusively devoted to this field, even though interest in science fiction has been increasing at a rapid rate...
...MARTIAN ODYSSEY (289 pp.)-Stanley Weinbaum-Fanfasy...
...could not retreat into the canyon, for behind them were even more terrifying Venusians, the three-eyed, four-legged, two-fingered triops noctivi-vans. What would Ham do? Readers will find the answer in A Martian Odyssey, a posthumous collection of Stanley Weinbaum's "science-fiction" stories...