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...thing about El Cordobés' bullfights is the crowd," says AntÓnio DÍaz-Cañabate, one of Spain's most fastidious critics. "They don't care at all about bullfighting. They want to go mad in the physical presence of a fetish...
...legitimate one and Clark answers it legitimately. "I have to be extraordinarily careful, sure," he admits, "and my peers have every right not to accept shoddy work." But critics fail to realize, Clark feels, the distinction between detachment and objectivity, of which they make a reality-obscuring fetish. As a matter of fact, he insists, objectivity that implies detachment or escape from reality actually decreases understanding and can be used to avoid the problem. "Where human feelings are part of the evidence, they cannot be ignored," he explains in Dark Ghetto, continuing, "Where anger is the appropriate response, to avoid...
...family oriented, many elaborately unostentatious, and no effort is made to attract outsiders?though well-sponsored families from as far away as St. Louis do not count as outsiders. Two of the choicest spots in the area are closely held, closely clubby resorts, both of which make an expensive fetish of informality...
...evergreens and maples. Moreover, they will tell you in Lake Forest that Desbarats is not just a place but a way of life?a life of complete simplicity, where everyone wears old clothes, sleeps in an iron bed, and uses bottled gas for lights and cooking. Desbarats makes a fetish of rusticity bordering on hardship. Most of the cabins do have indoor toilets and wash basins now, but a few of the some 85 island dwellers who have also put in bathtubs are looked upon as softies. Sailing is by far the leading activity in the islands, and the impressive...
...FETISH AND OTHER STORIES by Alberto Moravia. 285 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...