Word: fetish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about $100,000 a year, he was the town's most avid check-snatcher and tipper, its most unflagging patron of flower shops and buyer of sparkling burgundy (which he called "bubble ink"). His pinkish-blond hair was as much a trademark as his open-throat shirt, his fetish against wearing hats, ties or overcoats. "I'm a publicity hound," he told Cleveland sportwriters when he took over the Indians. And ex-Marine Bill Veeck, who had lost a leg as a result of combat injuries on Bougainville, always made good copy...
...fetish for punctuality is a Rio legend. "If the President has an appointment outside the palace for 9 o'clock," says an aide, "his hat must be brushed and on a table beside the door by 7." On a trip to Bolivia last summer the presidential plane was scheduled for a 6 a.m. takeoff...
...current series of articles marks the second time that the Tribune has "studied radical thoughts at Harvard." In January 1947 Griffin wrote a series on the same subject after spending several days in Cambridge. At that time he wrote that "Harvard makes almost a fetish of permitting radicalism to florish...
...dramatize this point, Manhattan's publicity-wise Museum of Modern Art was staging a show last week that paired ancient distortions with modern distortions-and implied that both were good. A paleolithic fetish 77,000 years old and shaped like a bunch of grapes made Gaston Lachaise's blimpish Standing Woman (1932) look a comparatively svelte great-granddaughter. A Canaanite idol dated 1000 B.C. seemed a more attenuated ancestor of Wilhelm Lehmbruck's Standing Youth, done in 1913 (see cuts). The horse in Picasso's Guernica was no more or less weird than the deerhead mask...
...resulted in sculpture so powerful that it makes such moderns as Henry Moore and Jacques Lipchitz look like sissies. The wholly abstract mask used in the circumcision ceremony of the secret Poro Society of the Ivory Coast Dan Tribe, slams at the eye like a fist. The Ashanti fertility fetish, carried on the backs of pregnant women to help make their children beautiful, has the simplicity of a lollipop but the elegance of a Donatello; the yellow & black Ibibio carving, used in secret female dances, sits its crescent moon with awesome assurance; and the Mpongwe stilt-dance "Mask...