Word: fetishized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Guns, above all -- their availability, their seductiveness. They become a fetish of manhood and power in a world that has given the young neither self-discipline nor much to hope for. Children have trouble expressing themselves. Guns are definitively articulate...
...many people tried to jam into Literature and Arts B-39 "Michaelangelo" as crowded into the Science Center to see Dr. Ruth. We must have some kind of fetish for the discussion of naked bodies. Spike Lee had to move his first lecture yesterday to Sanders Theater, but that's fine since none of the people there will actually get into the class...
...Roche College, argues that this same extremism reflects a perverse view of freedom. "Civil liberties means the right of the individual to win against the majority," he says. "But civility and community are both predicated on the individual being subordinate to the interest of society. If you make a fetish of individual rights, you are going to emasculate that community...
...both appalled and enraptured and wonders how people, after seeing such a spectacle, can go on living in the same old ways: "Why is nothing changed, where are the local crowds, why do we still have names and addresses and car keys?" Bill, who has made a fetish of his own individuality and remoteness from others, looks at Karen and says, "You come from the future...
Lawn is the curse of suburban man, his bizarre fetish, the great green god he sprays to. Lawn must be barbered to the satisfaction of one's neighbors, or it earns their dirty looks and, in some tightly strung communities, a summons from city hall. The ideal lawn is featureless, a living imitation of Astroturf. Striving to achieve it soaks up water, money and weekend goof-off time in fantastic quantities...