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Word: fetishes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resolution of the Unitarians that a harbinger for the future is felt. At Harvard where a premium is placed on freedom of morals and liberalism amounts to little less than a fetish, such courageous and unprecedented procedure can no more than receive hearty approbation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENSE AND SENSIBILITY | 5/22/1930 | See Source »

...originally was a Jlittle fetish "even by French mothers, sisters or sweethearts to French Poilus. They usually were worn around the neck, in the belief that, while carried no harm would come to the soldier, just as American soldiers believed that while wearing Paris garters no metal could touch them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 28, 1930 | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...victim of advice. Yet, the first few months of college mark only the beginning of the storm of suggestion. The maze of the tutorial system and the mysteries of the magic invoked by the two words, concentration and distribution, still remain for the initiate before the advisory fetish has fulfilled its function. Today, in the New Lecture Hall, the old ritual will take place, and the Freshman will be initiated into at least the mechanics of the present system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHADES OF THE PRISON HOUSE | 4/3/1930 | See Source »

Questiounaires are a fad. Nevertheless the propensity to inquire into other people's business acquires a significance divorced from the unpleasant character of a fetish if the knowledge sought is not cloyed with a mass of irrelevance: Many polls on the question of drinking are weighted with requests for information about various environmental influences, which, interesting as they may be to the psychologist, have little significance in relation to the fundamental free choice idea of any mass government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRO AND CON | 3/22/1930 | See Source »

...true in every phrase. There is a wide divergence in these views. If the Bible is merely the "time-worn literature of great men" it means one thing. If it is of "divine authorship" it is something else again. At Harvard, proud of the freedom that makes liberalism its fetish and unorthodoxy its boast, there would be found but scant support for the latter opinion. It is all the more instructive to note this latest example of the dominion over contemporary minds still retained by the spirit of past centuries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BATTLE OF THE BOOK | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

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