Word: fetich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lawyer. Otherwise-well, who can say what might have happened? In so far as I know, no one is carrying on the stage tradition of the Kemble family now. It is a sad thought, particularly to one who is related to that family, although I have never made a fetich of ancestral affairs...
Indisputably Barrett Wendell belonged to the great group of Harvard professors which included Norton, Child Shaler, Royce and William James; but almost as indisputably he stood apart from it--was never really of it. To the fetich of German "scientific" scholarship, the true divinity of which no one then doubted, he paid scant homage. His mind worked by flashes--flashes of wit, of iconoclastic paradox, of profound intelligence and of almost magical divination; but still, as it seemed to academic Cambridge, it worked uncanonically, irresponsibly. His knowledge was wide and luminous; on most of the subjects of which he wrote...