Word: fetishizing
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...moral effect of gambling is very little understood. It is not that the gambler, losing his own fortune, borrows from his friends; nor that having won a large sum he hates to tear himself away. The unfortunate fact is that few gamblers can resist the enticements of fetish and superstition. Faith in luck, in signs, in systems replaces reason and sense and nothing, certainly, could be more fatal...
...quite clear it is impossible to disagree entirely; and unfortunately it is impossible to disagree with the findings of the experts. Repetition to the contrary, the public does not know what it wants when it wants it. Fortunately for theatrical producers, each has faith in a fetish of his own which guides him in his guesses, and the most remarkable is George M. Cohans' requirement that a play must "hit me between the eyes," but no independent criterion has ever been...
Reverend Potter does not recommend, however, that the full paraphernalia of Japanese ancestor worship be adopted. An American touch is to be gained by substituting extensive use of the radio for periodical visits to tombs and shrines. And were only the Eastern mystery of an ancestral fetish to be considered, there could be no doubt as to the popularity of this new radio religion. Inasmuch as it may be interpreted as thinly disguised propaganda for the intensive study of American history it seems, at least among the "rising generation" foredoomed to failure...
...done." A Communist leader said: "If our party is not very careful this Lenin worship will get away from us. It is not for nothing that the Old Testament relates that God hid the sepulchre of Moses on Mount Nebo so that the Israelites might not make a fetish out of their leader. We face a similar situation today, and it needs but little to send ablaze Lenin fetishism throughout the length and breadth of Russia...
...this country Yale and Princeton, to mention only two of the great universities of the East, have this year and in the past contributed generously to the Fund. Only those who are irreconcilably committed to the fetish of Harvard indifference believe that the University will not do likewise...