Word: fetish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weber's fetish for secrecy enveloped the gigantic firm of which he was the autocrat - Allied Chemical & Dye Corp...
Self-criticism is a near-fetish in the new army. ". . . We are training under tactical regulations and with materiél that are almost wholly obsolete,'' Major General Lynch wrote in the current Infantry Journal. "There should be no hesitancy in moving at once to a radical revision. . . ." Beneath the static military crust, new tactics, weapons, strategies are in the making. At the Air Corps' experimental Wright Field are such men as Major Carl F. Greene, whose wing designs largely made possible the modern monoplane, whose new pressure cabin is carrying military and commercial aviation into...
...bright hoods of the Doctorate of Philosophy. Last week in Manhattan, Edgar Wallace Knight, Ph.D.,* Kenan professor of education at the University of North Carolina, guest professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, generally recognized as one of the South's leading teachers of teachers, delivered a diatribe against "fetish worship" of Ph.D. degrees. The old story he told his audience (most of whom were graduate students on the road to a doctorate): that Ph.D. degrees are "mass-produced" to the number of 3,000 per year, that the fault is with colleges for requiring that all professors be Doctors...
...fetish, that men must be satisfied while women must be virtuous" is being discarded, the enlightened modern declares. "Forty fraternity boys on our campus (Rollins?) were discussing the kind of wives they wanted (Snow White or D. Durbin?). Not one of them would marry a girl whom he believed to be dishonest, but only one] (Cotton Mather?) demanded virginity in his bride. Since most of us girls expect to marry college graduates, or their intellectual equivalents that is an answer...
...classics: he pines to do a real mystery, a real farce, a British pantomime, a fast revue, a Mozart opera. He has shown in Heartbreak House, with its careful, elegant sets by John Koenig, that the sceneryless stage of Julius Caesar and The Cradle Will Rock was not the fetish of a flash in the Pantheon, but simply a well-timed theatrical stunt. The brightest moon that has risen over Broadway in years, Welles should feel at home in the sky, for the sky is the only limit his ambitions recognize...