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Last week came another blow. Montreal's influential French-language Le Devoir picked up a whisper that has been going around for years, reported that Diefenbaker's occasional uncontrollable trembling of the hands could be the result of having Parkinson's disease. At the party's annual convention in Ottawa, Diefenbaker scoffed at the story: "For one who has been described in such touching and dulcet tones by the Liberal Party as being in a state of decrepitude, I want to remind them that we outran them three times, and we'll outrun them again...
...strange contest ensues, in which she barters for his body and he gambles to save her soul. On the surface, Milk Train is Flora's story and incontestably Hermione Baddeley's vehicle. She can put the chill of mortality into a sibilant whisper, all vanity into a grandiose Churchillian lisp, all lechery into a creamy smirk. As she coughs, groans and rages about the stage, she is larger than death...
...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...
...nights of important debuts, nervous musicians often whisper backstage prayers that the critics, somehow, will fall deaf by curtain time. Last week the critics fell mute instead. New York's newspaper strike (see PRESS) left them effectively silenced, but to the artists who made their debuts, the quiet from critics' row seemed even gloomier than the usual whisper of mighty pencils...