Word: fetish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Guardian Spirit. As the Queen's plane touched the ground, a 21-gun salute boomed out. Wearing a cream-colored lace dress and a matching suede hat, the Queen shook hands warmly with a smiling, white-suited Nkrumah. A white-robed fetish priest then poured a tot of gin on the ground as a libation to the gods to ensure the Queen a safe visit. Said one onlooker: "Osagyefo needs that libation for safety more than Her Majesty does...
...content 17% to 20%), formed into 1.6-oz. patties 3⅝ in. in diameter. Each is to be garnished with ¼ oz. onions, one teaspoon of mustard, one tablespoon of catsup and a pickle 1 in. in diameter. A third of the manual is devoted to Kroc's fetish: cleanliness. So strict is he about it that he posted a sign by the coffee machine in the home office threatening that "anyone who throws sugar wrappers or empty paper cups on the floor will be fired...
Given the chance, she said, women make just as good executives as men. Noting that "a woman in Russia leads a more constructive life than a woman in America" because she has greater professional opportunities, Mrs. Guggenheim deplored "the mommie fetish so deeply branded into the American psyche...
Mayer has a fetish about progressive education, and at times seems to equate "progressive" with "good." He is 100 per cent for the "project" approach to teaching, and is foursquare against the use of drill. To him, the "direct" method of language instruction is the only way, and he decries any attempt to explain rules or reasons. He sees little use for clerical mathematics or fully worked-out answers: "Most arithmetical problems that come up in life (or in science, for that matter) require only approximate answers...
Back from the successful conference of rival Congo political leaders on the island of Madagascar, Albert Kalonji, the boss of South Kasai province, waved his favorite fetish stick and cried: "The crisis is definitely over. Everybody is satisfied." Congo President Joseph Kasavubu staged a military parade and called a national holiday to celebrate. From the cheerful tone taken by the assorted Congolese leaders, peace and maybe even civilization seemed just around the corner...