Word: fetishize
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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...
...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...
...late great Bach is intoned during a dance entitled "Gothic'' in which two girls named Tilly Losch and Ann Barberova strike attitudes marvelously reminiscent of medieval sculpture and stained glass. To the threnodies of Ravel, the remarkable Losch, whose dancing has made her something of a fetish in Europe, performs an extraordinary "Arabesque" in which her hands and torso trace sinuous designs while her feet remain motionless. Cole Porter fulfills the duty of popular composers to provide at least one haunting ballad per show. Its name: "What is This Thing Called Love...
...England, the Boston Transcript was alert. Bishop Jones had just made a speech there in which he said the U. S. flag should not be displayed in schoolrooms because of ''dangerous fetish worship which promotes thoughts of war among school children." Bishop Jones further said that no man could worship at two altars, nationalist and Christian. Cried the Transcript to all patriots: "We are still old-fashioned enough to believe that the clergyman who advocates abandonment of the American flag and what it stands for has no place in American society, whatever his pretensions as a leader...
...Tactics at Harvard, and the Rev. Prescott Evarts, Rector of Christ Church, Protestant Episcopal, Cambridge, replied yesterday to the remark made recently by the Rt. Rev. Paul Jones, now acting Episcopal Bishop of Southern Ohio, that the display of American flags in public school rooms was "a dangerous fetish worship which promotes thoughts of war among school children...