Word: hyena
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British left-wing intellectual circles, who have detested him ever since When the Kissing Had to Stop (TIME, July 18, 1960) made the left the villain of contemporary British history. Fitz Gibbon does not seem to mind, has announced his next book as Random Thoughts of a Fascist Hyena...
...have to dissect the whole man. I'm responsible for how he walks, looks, talks. I can't do this inside myself. I'm a little bored with my self. I have to get it from outside sources. Otherwise I'd live like a hyena, eating my own entrails...
Among the more cryptic of these epigrams are the following: "A hyena does not drive a cow," and "A spider does not sit that people may teach it to speak through the nose...
...partly because of Osborne's cruel skill at picking scabs from the wounds his people carry, mostly because of a touching performance by Actress de Banzie and a smashing one by Actor Olivier. Olivier's Archie is a masterpiece of mannerism. He carries his body like a hyena's, hunched at the neck with the legs dragging carelessly behind. His smile is big, showy, meaningless. His hands are furtive, fiddling, scratching. His eyes are busy, empty, dead. It can, of course, be objected that Olivier's Archie is more a mannerism than a man, that Olivier...
...square miles of African semidesert with the regal confidence of a Scarsdale matron patting into place the play patterns of her daughter's age group. Only such a woman would speak of the gruesome noises outside the camp at night as the "chuckles" of a hyena...