Word: househusbands
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...have a little difficulty being a househusband," says Larry, who struggles to balance the powerful image of older, more macho times with current necessity. "But I love being with the kids. I also believe it is good for them to see me doin' housework, so they don't keep believin' that outside work belongs only to the man and inside is the woman." This is quite a change in attitude for a man who insisted his wife quit nursing school after he and Joy married...
...alumni of '56 include a cattle rancher, the chairman of Saks Fifth Avenue, a philosopher, professors, the director of the National Gallery of Art, a priest, a librarian, a lumber wholesaler, an ambassador, a television correspondent, an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, a state senator, a pathologist, a househusband, a pilot, a salesman of women's shoes, and a mediator of environmental disputes...
...progress from the beginning of the end of the Beatles to the release of Double Fantasy in 1980 and his death shortly thereafter. In between are fascinating accounts of Lennon as peace activist, of his light to remain in the U.S. and of his five-year hiatus as a "househusband...
...peace activist who held sleep-ins with his wife in hotel bedrooms, Lennon repeatedly risked the scorn of the press and fans. As a househusband who stayed at home for five years to take care of his son, he invited the ridicule and contempt of those who wanted him to continue recording. And as a comeback artist who let his unpopular wife Yoko contribute half the songs to a new album, he braved the possibility of rejection...
John gloried in playing parent to Sean, and liked to call himself a househusband. What upset traditionalists was the fact that he obviously reveled in his domestic role. This role reversal was seen by the man raised by an aunt and three of her sisters as no threat at all. He insisted-indeed, proved -that he was putting nothing at risk, not his manhood and not his artistry...