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...Georgian who never learned to speak Russian without a heavy accent, Stalin succeeded in consolidating the most formidable tyranny of all time, partly because he made himself the guardian of Mother Russia in the face of real and perceived foreign enemies. Since then, the U.S.S.R. has made a fetish out of strengthening its military defenses against external challenges...
Credit controls and a balanced budget are Carter's methods of limiting demand. The balanced budget is a fetish likely to accomplish little. Carter himself points out that every budget but one since 1961 has run a deficit--yet we managed to sustain minimal inflation during many of those years. The $13 billion Carter wants to cut from the budget--even the $18 billion in cuts he mistakenly promised his national television audience--would not significantly cut inflation. John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, has said that "in a two-to-three-trillion dollar a year economy...
...still get excited over a huge scoop of chocolate ice cream, have an urge to play cat's cradle, or cling to some childhood fetish, than Charlie Brown will appeal to you. At South House, the actors bring Charlie Schultz's comic strip to life. It's a two-hour ice cream cone with a lot of flavor...
...made no mistakes in his athletic free-skating program but left the overall impression of an expertly twirling oak tree. Many of the figure skaters, in fact, seemed to be phoning in their performances from Albany. That was not so of Americans David Santee, 22, who had made a fetish out of the movie boxer Rocky, and tiny Scott Hamilton, 21, who ricocheted around the arena like an exuberant puppy. The two gave the men's competition badly needed shots of enthusiasm; they placed fourth and fifth...
Notre Dame. "Don't call it a fetish. Call it a passion," he says, though either description may fit. An early childhood in Indianapolis --with a diehard Irish fan for a father--served as the catalyst, and his devotion survived a move that might have left an average fan with split sympathies...