Word: fetish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This Eastern-clique business is a fetish with Goldwater and his followers; they constantly compare 1964 to 1952, when, they insist, the Republican kingmakers of the industrial Northeast cheated Robert A. Taft out of the Republican nomination. The comparison, of course, is absurd. Bill Scranton has not achieved the national stature of a Dwight Eisenhower, and Barry Goldwater is far, far from being a Bob Taft. Moreover, the storied kingmakers who launched Ike into politics-and thereby won undying enmity from the G.O.P.'s conservative wing-did not catapult Scranton, or anyone else, into the race...
Scornful as he was of this work, Sargent's portraits almost never flattered, almost always illuminated personality to the surprised satisfaction of the sitter-although in the case of the famed Madame X, Sargent was so daringly personal in depicting her titian tresses and her fetish for lavendar face powder that the exotic sitter's true name (Judith Gautreau) was concealed from Victorian society. "Sargent" meant "portrait" -work high in esteem during his lifetime, low after his death in 1925 when he became confused with less talented imitators, high again now that most of the portraits have found...
...suppression is more effective. A reporter for WGBH was jailed for "inciting to riot" the children demonstrating at the hotel dining room, when he was discovered to be recording on tape police action in rounding up the children with dogs and cattle prods. St Augustine segregation becomes a ridiculous fetish in the instance of one experience of the group with Mrs. Peabody and Mrs. Burgess. At one restaurant the waitress evidently did not realize that Mrs. Burgess was Negro, so the group was pleasantly served. Toward the end of the meal Mrs. Peabody remarked to the waitress how glad...
...oligarchs like the Brazilian industrialist who told a U.S. visitor: "You know, Brazil's growth is based in part on not paying taxes. If we paid, the government would spend it on foolishness like the army. Why do you keep talking about taxes? Taxation is an Anglo-Saxon fetish." Most important of all, it means listening to-and heeding -complaints like this from an Argentinean lawyer: "The U.S. projects one specific policy for the whole of Latin America. What works well in Mexico cannot possibly work effectively in Bolivia. Conditions are basically different. All this...
...workday of Pet Milk President Theodore R. Gamble frequently begins at 5:30 a.m. in a duck blind near his St. Louis home, and he has been known to spend two hours shooting before he drives to the office. Even in a blind, Gamble follows his fetish for utilizing time; when no ducks appear, he runs through paperwork or reviews Pet's problems with invited aides. Such attention to time has carried bright, youthful (39) Ted Gamble a long way in a little bit of it. He abandoned a Wall Street career to help save 79-year...