Word: fetishizing
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...steeped tradition of the Porcellian hurts its members academically too, Birge feels. "There's a fetish about a lack of commitment. To care too much about something is square. Big as it is, there's not one room in the place set aside for studying. This is part of a confusion between complacency and maturity...
...electing John Kennedy their first Roman Catholic President, U.S. voters swatted down the WASPish fetish that religion is automatically a criterion for presidential or vice-presidential candidacy. The Republicans may give tradition a further gig in 1968. Michigan Governor George Romney, a Mormon, is one of the most promising possibilities for the Republican presidential nomination. For geographic balance alone, the G.O.P. might well pick Romney's new but warm friend, New York Senator Jacob Javits, as his running mate, there by setting up an unprecedentedly balanced, Mormon-Jewish ticket...
...sheer and pervasive fervor, the love of nationhood has no equal among contemporary political passions. Independence is the fetish, fad and totem of the times. Everybody who can muster a quorum in a colony wants Freedom Now-and such is the temper of the age that they can usually have it. Roughly one-third of the world, some 1 billion people, have run up their own flags in the great dismantlement of empires since World War II, creating 60 new nations over the face of the earth. In the process they have also created, for themselves and for the world...
Syracuse, minus the services of behemoth Jim Nance, now playing fullback for the Boston Patriots, should fight for second place with Army, Hofstra, and Maryland. East Stroudsberg and Mankato State, two small colleges that make a fetish of wrestling, are also strong...
...Symbol. And a fetish is what El Cordobés is. An orphan named Manuel Benitez who grew up on the streets of Cordoba and broke into bullfighting the hard way-by jumping into the Madrid ring from his seat in the stands-he is every Spaniard's dream of the poor boy who made good. He owns four ranches, a fleet of Mercedes and a six-seat private plane, and is building a seven-story hotel in Cordoba. With his serious young face, battered body and brilliant white smile, he has also become Spain's leading...