From Dwight Macdonald to Pauline Kael, John Simon, Seymour Krim, Mary McCarthy, Elizabeth Hardwick, Renata Adler, and Dale Peck, American critics have been as sanguinary as the Brits in their estimations of that lamb gambolling toward the slaughterhouse known as the "new book".
There are some deliriously tasty (sorry) bits sprinkled throughout — did I mention those adorable little lambs, gamboling onstage during most of the musical numbers to offer choral support?
He breaks off to do a lollopy impersonation of little lambs gambolling in a meadow... 'And then they all ran back to the other end of the field.
Cute baby creatures are adorable; lambs gambolling in a field, fluffy ducklings in a nest or kittens playing with a ball of wool can make even the hardest soul melt.
& now out of the silence the dead rising: ghosts of Buffalo soldiers & Ogalala Sioux — winged messengers — like great blue herons arrowing over the lake where the black spring lambs gambol, late for the sacrifice.
Though not much to look at, these brief glimpses of soul-and-soil connection — a sheepherder watching his lambs gambol, a young resident explaining how a favorite mountain nurtures prayer — unfold with heartfelt simplicity.
& nowout of the silence the dead rising: ghosts of Buffalo soldiers& Ogalala Sioux winged messengers like great blue heronsarrowing over the lake where the black spring lambs gambol,late for the sacrifice..
Of his own conversion in the mid-70s, McCartney has often told the story of how he and his first wife, Linda, were having a roast dinner, looked out of the window, saw lambs gambolling, and realised they didn't want to eat meat any more.
And the streams were gushing gray-green and the wet, white lambs gamboled in the rain.
His lambs had gambolled away, in different directions.
