Word: hite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Correspondent Jeanne McDowell found Sex Researcher Shere Hite settled serenely on a satiny love seat in Hite's rococo Manhattan apartment. Instead of the antimale polemicist that McDowell had been warned about, she discovered a soft-spoken woman with a passion for classical music and antique clothes. "Walk into her house, and you feel as if you have entered another, gentler era," says McDowell. "And yet there she is, at the center of a storm about some of the most contentious issues of our time...
Women and Love, Hite's latest salvo in the battle of the sexes -- and the subject of this week's cover story -- sparked some skirmishes in the corridors of TIME. Many staff members who worked on the story were moved to conduct personal surveys on the state of male-female relationships. "It felt more like a national group-therapy session than a workweek," says Chicago Correspondent Elizabeth Taylor. Hite's basic conclusion, that women are profoundly dissatisfied in their dealings with men, was hotly debated. "Some people say her questions are rigged," notes Reporter-Researcher Jeannie Park...
...Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) is expected to take three months to deliberate the cases of Black officers James Hite and Myles Lawton, and white officer Sgt. Edward Hussey, all three of whom were suspended for what they claim to be specialized treatment due to their skin color...
...Blacks have been suspended and fired for minor infractions," Hite told the Cambridge Chronicle last week. "We've had white officers with very serious offenses, and in some cases, crimes, who have no discipline...
...Hite, who has been with the Cambridge police for 13 years, was suspended for 20 months, in 1984, for disrepect to a police officer and falsifying reports...