Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story concerns a typical Italian 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...
...plot focuses on two days in a Southern town where "an arrogant, hard-headed . . . independent Negro" named Lucas Beauchamp (Juano Hernandez) is accused of shooting a white man in the back. While Lucas rests tranquilly in the jailhouse and most of the county stands outside trying to decide when to lynch him, a few conscience-stricken citizens (including Claude Jarman Jr. and David Brian as a lawyer) set out to prove his innocence. The path they take to clear him leads to such Tom Sawyerish hocus-pocus as grave-robbing and fishing in quicksand for a vanished corpse...
...matter-only to find that a conglomeration of blind alleys is, itself, the mysterious center of the weird and wonderful meanderer. Biographer Richard (The Duke) Aldington, in the most complete work on Waterton to date, explores the maze more thoroughly, but still finds no adequate explanation of the man who was unquestionably one of the 19th Century's strangest freaks...
Similarly, Frankenberg shows how Poet E. E, Cummings intends his wrenchings of language, typography and punctuation as devices to praise the individual "human" in man and to satirize his faceless "public" front; how the delicate verses of Poetess Marianne Moore pounce on details of sight and touch in a way prose seldom does ("the blades of the oars moving together like the feet of water-spiders...
Fallibility. In Port Jervis, N.Y., the repair man called in to fix the cigarette machine at police headquarters found it jammed by ten phony coins. In Powell, Wyo., Patrolman Warren Schrofel, after lecturing to 400 high-school students on traffic problems, paid a $2 fine for parking near a hydrant...