Word: fetishizing
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...Secret. Unlike Johnson, Clements makes a fetish of secrecy. Example: as usual, he recently kept his staff members uninformed about where he would be on a weekend trip out of Washington (Capitol Hill staffers deem it important to know where their bosses can be reached by telephone). But, just before climbing aboard his train, Clements thumbed an aide to his side, looked warily around to make certain there were no eavesdroppers in the vicinity, cupped his hamlike hand to his mouth and whispered conspiratorially: "Keep this to yourself, but in case of a real emergency...
Reece's report attacks a far bigger target than tax-exempt foundations. It looks with a jaundiced eye on the social sciences and at empirical methods of scientific inquiry. It excoriates empiricism as the "fact-finding mania," the "fetish of statistics" and the "comptometer compulsion." It charges that the Kinsey reports (partially financed by the Rockefeller Foundation) are "socially dangerous." The report declares but does not prove: "The research in the social sciences with foundation support slants heavily to the left...
Marilyn Monroe overdeveloped Hollywood's fetish for sultriness, and Audrey Hepburn reversed the trend, substituting for the revered sweater a combination of spriteliness and naivete. And now Anna Magnani, the Italian actress starring in Jean Renoir's The Golden Coach, has presented moviegoers with a new idea of feminine acting. Instead of emphasizing the body, the voice, or even the personality, she relies wholly on her face to express the emotion of each dramatic situation...
...Geoffrey disposed of some popular fallacies as well. Examples:
...city with enough small schools to provide classrooms for 40,000 students. But finally O'Gorman got fed up with the chaste severity that characterizes functionalism. "Truly functional architecture," he explained, "is cheaper [but] it's an engineering proposition." The style, he decided, had become a fetish instead of a means of saving money...