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...clerical Establishment. The other is a lawyer (William Hutt), a man of cool, reptilian venom with a hint of Mephistopheles in his brief beard and black-magical manner. They goad each other with insults, and the cardinal muses malevolently on how the lawyer got his school nickname, "Hyena." "Did we not discover about the hyena that it was a most resourceful scavenger? . . . that to devour the dead, scavenged prey, it would often chew into it through the anus...
...psychiatrist." Even Counsel Cohn looks as though he longed to desert the sinking ship. As for McCarthy, he just sits there with a strange and frightening look on his face: a smile that is some how vicious, a grin like the grin of a wounded and desperate hyena. The look is the look of a very sick man, and it did more to damage McCarthy's case than any evidence introduced against him. When the hearings were finished, McCarthy was finished as a force in U.S. political life...
...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...