Word: ravener
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Grandmother was boss, and when she wanted anything she yelled for it. If it didn't come fast enough, she cracked someone on the head with a stone. When Raven was hungry, he snagged a fish from the brook and gulped it, head, guts and all. When Barren wanted a baby, she moaned to the moon, danced in the rain, hugged leafy trees...
...Woman's World. Raven is the hero. He is identified as a "genius," a man with a "revolutionary" mind. Genius or not, he is deceitful, lazy, lousy, and hardly knows up from down. His cardinal urges are sexual, although he doesn't begin to understand why. Pregnancy, everyone believes, is a matter of solitary female ritual, magic; the child is a fruit of moonstruck female blood. "There was not much to feed a man's ego," Novelist Fisher explains...
...chief social function was that of hunter, but Raven is not a success at the job. He prefers to lie under a tree and scratch. It is Raven's bad luck to live in a woman's world, run by women for women. Grandmother screams, "Get up," kicks him on the side of the skull. Grandmother also cooks the food, plants the crops. Her daughters (Raven's sisters) bear offspring after exposure to the moon and the rain, seldom allow Raven to share their...
...reported $50,000-a-year job as president of the American Plant Food Council. But he wanted a last word before he left: "I have seen men come to this body in the heyday of hopeful youth, and stay under the blistering spotlight of public service until those once raven locks were frosted by the passing of many winters, until that agile step had been slowed and that eagle eye dimmed...
Born. To Brenda Diana Duff Frazier ("Glamor Girl") Kelly, 24, whose raven-haired, cream-smooth beauty helped to make her 1938's No. 1 debutante; and John Sims ("Shipwreck") Kelly, 35, onetime part-owner of professional football's Brooklyn Dodgers: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Brenda Victoria. Weight...