Word: schacter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These familar symptoms of "housewife syndrome" have been described by countless bored and depressed women. The speaker, however, is burly, bearded Sheldon Schacter of Carmel Valley, Calif., who gave up a $13,000-a-year job as a psychiatric social worker to become a househusband. Schacter, 29, cares for his son Jason and weilds a mean spatula and dry mop while his wife Sandy goes off to teach. Though feminists have long argued that such role reversals are often desirable, how many men have actually agreed to swap the daily commuter train for domesticity? Report TIME correspondents nationwide: a very...
Role Reversals. Other men object to the sheer drudgery of housework. "I can't stand cleaning," admits Author Robert Kimmel Smith, 42, who writes in his Brooklyn, N.Y., home and cares for his children while his wife Claire works full time as a literary agent. Schacter enlivens his vacuuming chores by plugging in a set of stereo headphones. Cincinnati Househusband Ken Onaitis, 26, slaves over a hot stove and grew angry at first when his wife arrived home late for dinner. Says he: "Well, you work two hours over something...
...pitch to various ethnic groups who normally vote Democratic, and many of them have returned the compliment. Albert Gee, grand president of the Chinese-American Citizens Alliance, is supporting Nixon. So is Sam Nakis, past supreme president of the Greek-American organization AHEPA. Among Jewish defectors are Rabbi Herschel Schacter, former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Jewish Organizations; and David Luchins, who headed the 1972 Jewish Youth for Humphrey. Blacks have been the staunchest holdouts against Republican blandishments, but Nixon has been able to pick up the backing of Athlete-Actor Jim Brown, Singer James Brown, Floyd McKissick...
...idea for the show grew out of Producer Reynolds' friendship with Dr. Norman Schacter, principal of Los Angeles High School. Many of the show's exterior scenes are shot at L.A. High, while the series' interior sets are based on the classrooms, corridors and offices of the school. Several script ideas have taken shape in the minds of the show's writers after spending time on the campus talking to teachers and students and sitting in on classes. "Arizona State Loves You," the story of a college coach recruiting a black high school athlete, is based...