Word: fetishize
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corporations have been finding new products and new markets, branching out into new fields. Diversification has become so popular that it is almost a fetish...
...jazzy Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra by Walter Piston reached a peak of musical quality, performance, and balance. Unlike many pianists, Robert Freeman did not make a fetish of hard-driving rhythms. Instead, he imparted a lyrical feeling to even the bounciest passages which toned down the score's over-hectic elements and gave the listeners a sense of proportion that otherwise might have been lacking...
...should a newspaper handle an irresponsible charge made by a public figure? Most newspapers, clinging to the old-fashioned fetish of "objectivity," print the charge as straight news, leave it to the reader to interpret. Even when the paper follows up its story with a denial from the person maligned, the denial seldom catches up with the charge. For this reason, more and more editors feel that the old rules for handling such stories are not good enough (TIME...
...allure of the Midway wears off. It is a loneliness imposed by the preoccupied bathers on Coney Island's beach and the silhouetted couple who kiss beneath the boardwalk. Only a pony-ride attendant provides any understanding, and partly because of this new friendship and partly because of a fetish for horses, Joey becomes a familiar figure around the concession. It is this attendant who aids Joey's brother in finding the boy and returning him to his Brooklyn apartment...
...Bevan, Attlee had proved he was still in command and had taken for his own the Bevanites'-and some of Churchill's-strongest appeal to the country. The two Socialists are still poles apart on domestic issues (e.g., further nationalization, of which the Bevanites make a fetish), and Bevan is still out to win over the party from the Attlee regime, any way he can. But Attlee has pushed the thunderous Welshman right off his own front porch...