Word: fetishize
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...teams of three men with an alternate for each, will be chosen, Candidates should prepare five-minute speeches on either side of the question: "Resolved. That the fetish of efficiency is a deplorable feature of modern life...
...change of subject followed a conference with the Symphony Hall management, who felt that the subject originally chosen. "Resolved, That the fetish of efficiency is a deplorable feature of modern life," was not so well suited to an international debate as the subject dealing with pacifism, according to D. E. Scoll '28, Debate Manager...
...undergraduates in good standing are eligible for the team, which will uphold the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That the fetish of efficiency is a deplorable feature of modern life...
...question to be debated on October 28 by Harvard and a team compos of representatives of three English universities is: "Resolved, That the fetish of efficiency is a deplorable feature of modern life." The question of which Harvard is to support the affirmative, was chosen last night at an open meeting of the Debating Council in Harvard 6 from a list of six subjects suggested by the English team...
Realism, so-called, is indeed the password and fetish of modernity. Realism, in painting, realism in literature, realism in music--and always this realism is atended by unpleasant noise whatever be the medium of expression, and rarely is it real. Yet cacaphony in music may, for all that, have more of a log to stand on so to speak, than disharmony in other branches of art, for only last night an article appeared in a metropolitan newspaper to the effect that music through its new mechanics will strengthen certain muscles in the ear that have become attrophied through disuse...