Word: fetishizing
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...nonconformity is to have its rightful say in American life, as it did with Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman and Veblen, it must stop making a fetish of itself. Conformity ... may, in the end, prove to have the greater attraction for those genuinely seeking a free and full life. After all, unrestricted amateur nonconformism is one of the honorable paths in American history. In the meanwhile, we must oppose all efforts of the dedicated nonconformists to make us not conform according to their rules...
...Radcliffe Choral Society here recently. The inevitable comparisons between him and Professor Woodworth will probably be being made for some time to come, for their approach to choral singing and style of conducting are quite different. The emphasis on diction which was a trademark amounting almost to a fetish in past years has been relaxed, allowing for a smoother, more fluid performance, but sacrificing the percussive element to some degree. There seems to be less attempt at choral "effects," which provide both interest and distraction, in favor of more concentration on the overall shape of long sections and on greater...
...except on the rebound. He had just sold his first play, and in the happy Fitzgerald days he showed Rhoda a world she could not even imagine. But no matter how much Tom earned, Rhoda could not get over the fear that the theater was a precarious life. Her fetish was security, and when she met Presley Brake, founder of Monolith Security Mutual. Tom said: "I know Rhoda's going to love him." She did not, but while Tom was away in World War II, she married...
...during his 40 frenzied financial years Errett Lobban Cord made a fetish of personal privacy, kept his door closed to all interviewers, stayed out of the gossip columns and away from all but a chosen few friends. It was only when he went into politics two years ago that Cord suddenly emerged as a hail fellow who obviously enjoyed his new role...
...Renegade features a fanatical Christian missionary who goes out to convert a barbarous tribe dwelling in a dread-provoking "city of salt." The natives promptly cut out his tongue and convert him into a devoted slave of their fetish-god. A turnabout ending suggests that man can drink deeply of neither good nor evil without finding its opposite mocking him from the bottom of the glass...