Word: howlings
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...test of the season; the New York Giants, humbled 37-0 by Green Bay last year, were thirsting for revenge. "We want this game so badly we can taste it," said Giant Coach Allie Sherman, and 65,000 partisan fans braved Yankee Stadium's 13° cold to howl for Green Bay blood. Around New York the "smart" money was on the home-town Giants. The Packers were tired, the skeptics said. Nobody could pass like the Giants' Y. A. Tittle, nobody could catch like Del Shofner...
Whisper to Howl. Most spectacular example is a sprawling, scurrilous first novel, Günter Grass's Tin Drum, which has won prizes and stirred anger all over Europe, sold 150,000 copies in Germany, and will be out in the U.S. next month...
Grass, a 35-year-old ex-tombstone carver, is probably the most inventive talent to be heard from anywhere since the war. In The Tin Drum, he employs every technique from realism to surrealism, every tone from a whisper to a howl. The gaudiest gimmick in his literary bag of tricks, however, is a character named Oskar Matzerath. For Oskar is that wildly distorted mirror which, held up to a wildly deformed reality, gives back a recognizable likeness...
...poor yap to fetch, carry, make spaniel eyes, sit up and beg for his supper and think all the while what a lucky dog he is. But one day somebody tells him how his wife has deliberately turned him into a lap dog, and he sets up a terrible howl. "I am a hunter," he snaps at his spouse as he leaves the house, "and I still haven't forgotten how to point...
...find the dross screamingly funny, and the music rather second-rate. Consequently, he has built up an unmusical and ungainly case which closely resembles the staggerer I posed to you a while back, and he has stuffed the poor Yeomen as chock full of yoks, boffs, and sundry other howl-makers as a year's supply of DesiLu half-hour shows...