Word: fetishize
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...Paine Hall sit-in. Perhaps those of us who lost our bursar's cards in Paine Hall could have, and should have, contacted more faculty members directly before the meeting. But I do not agree that we represented, even in part, a group of students who make a "fetish of intolerance," "turn a debatable view of history into dogma," or engage in the "tactics of despair...
...prospect of me most last year was the prospect of disciplinary retribution meted out in ignorance of a wide moral upsurge. What worries me most today is the state of mind of a group of students who, because some forms of tolerance are at times "re-pressive," make a fetish of intolerance, turn a debatable view of history into a dogma, and convince themselves that their identification with the oppressed and the damned of the earth makes of them an equally oppressed group, entitled there fore to the tactics of despair. We cannot allow them either to believe that they...
...dorm residents switched roommates last year and "at least twice that many wanted to move but were persuaded to stick it out." Even when switches are made, he says, "the one who is left feels rejected." He recalled a case last year in which one boy with a fetish for cleanliness hung a rope across his room to isolate a roommate, who left dirty underwear scattered about. The rejected boy turned morose, let his grades slip, dropped out of school...
...happy about losing a top man like Knudsen, just as Motorola was understandably distressed about losing Hogan. Yet, whatever the merits of Motorola's suit against Fairchild, the danger of executives carrying corporate secrets to a rival is generally not as great as it seems. Despite the secrecy fetish that Detroit makes about new models, almost everyone admits that automakers usually know all about one another's most guarded projects. It is often the same way in other industries. Says Michigan State's Jennings: "A secret is only a secret for a year or so anyway...
...story develops by fits and false starts-filled with cutbacks, recapitulations, inconsistencies, and broad parodies of such moviemakers as Hitchcock and Godard. Spoofy sex is provided by toothsome Marie-France Pisier as a double-agent prostitute, plus the deadpan hero's fatal fetish for naked girls locked up in chains. There is some excellent photography and a surprise-on-surprise ending that confuses even Robbe-Grillet...