Word: fetishize
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...resulted in sculpture so powerful that it makes such moderns as Henry Moore and Jacques Lipchitz look like sissies. The wholly abstract mask used in the circumcision ceremony of the secret Poro Society of the Ivory Coast Dan Tribe, slams at the eye like a fist. The Ashanti fertility fetish, carried on the backs of pregnant women to help make their children beautiful, has the simplicity of a lollipop but the elegance of a Donatello; the yellow & black Ibibio carving, used in secret female dances, sits its crescent moon with awesome assurance; and the Mpongwe stilt-dance "Mask...
What Griffin found out filled 24 Vari-Typed columns as the Trib's first "expose" of the year. The Ivy League, wrote Griffin, was "infested with pedagogic termites. . . . Harvard makes almost a fetish of permitting radicalism to flourish, and a visitor is impressed by the prevailing spirit that 'revolution is wonderful...
Football's fetish for specialization had produced "passers who don't block, and fullbacks who never play when the other team has the ball. Now the quarterback, who used to be the team's field general, was being demoted to drill sergeant. It was all the result of the unlimited substitution rule (TIME...
...Unitarian religious liberals, have always prided ourselves on our right to our own views and on the right to follow the dictates of our own consciences; but there have been indications in some circles in recent months that . . . dissidence ... is well on its way to becoming a fetish...
...Senate and was beaten. He sued the Chicago Tribune for calling him an anarchist, and collected 6?. He fought "international Jewry" with the faked Protocols of Zion. He made a fetish of raw carrots and soybeans. He was ruthless with employees who fell out of his favor, charitable to human strays...