Word: ribbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story of Creation as the Bible tells it, says Author Robert Graves, ain't necessarily so. In fact, the Book of Genesis has the story so mixed up that the creation of Eve from Adam's rib, for instance, is really the misreading of a picture of one man killing another with a curved knife (hence the rib) in a quarrel over a woman...
...name or another in the world's myths and religions. In past books, such as King Jesus (TIME, Sept. 30, 1946), he has taken up arms in her behalf against what he considers the anti-feminist conspiracy of Judaism and Christianity. His latest book, Adam's Rib (Yoseloff; $6), is an effort to rescue another archetype of the goddess-this time Eve-from her subordinate role in the order of creation...
...Joshua's invading Israelites when they seized Hebron." But either deliberately or through ignorance, he read the tablets in the wrong order and with the wrong cast of characters. This resulted in various anomalies, such as the story of Eve's creation from Adam's rib-"equaled in perversity only by the post-Homeric Greek legends of Athene's birth from the head of Zeus, and Dionysus' birth from his thigh." For in all primitive myth, says the Goddess' Graves, "the female, not the male, gives life, even if she is no more than...
Whether or not the rib was Adam's-it is certainly Graves...
...injuries, most notably at fullback where the depth chart trails off into an embarrassing nothingness after starter Sam Halaby. Second stringer Chris Hauge is sidelined with rib injuries, third stringer Jon Serbin will be out for the season with a fractured vertebra, and even Halaby is suffering from bruised ribs. In the emergency, halfback Glenn Haughie has been pressed into service as a fullback on a week's notice, but Yovicsin still winces at the situation...