Word: fetishizing
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...once sent his two sons, aged six and eight, on a tour of Europe by themselves, and when they telephoned him in London that they were having passport trouble in Paris, casually told them to join him as soon as they had straightened it out. He makes a fetish of self-reliance...
...autocratic president of whopping, $500,000,000 Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., which he and Eugene Meyer organized after World War I as a holding and operating company surpassing any European competitor; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Son of a Socialist labor leader, Tycoon Weber had such a fetish for secrecy that no firm member could appear in Who's Who or have his picture taken for publication. Not until the New York Stock Exchange threatened in 1933 to remove Allied's 2,400,000 shares from its lists did the corporation reveal its financial anatomy...
Maintenance was LeMay's fetish ("you can't drop bombs from a grounded plane"). When he noticed the ground force overworked in one group, while another group's men were comparatively idle, he pooled all the maintenance forces within each wing. A crack pilot with an exceptional feel for mechanic's work, he set up a system of specially skilled roving workers, for speedier, better repairs...
...these forthright words N.P.A. trampled on the cherished fetish of many a U.S. businessman and farmer. In place of rigid protectionism, the Association blue-printed its own plan for a booming postwar trade. Nub of the plan: Expansion of foreign trade by a scaling-down in U.S. tariffs. Said the Association: "The fear that competition with 'cheap foreign labor' would destroy American labor standards and the American standard of living is without real substance...
Most U.S. modernists still revere and follow in basic principles the European pioneers of the early '20s-Gropius, Oud, Le Corbusier, Miës van der Rohe. But younger architects no longer make a fetish of pure functionalism (following Le Corbusier's dictum "a house is a machine for living") and the ruthless exclusion of all ornament. While they pay close attention to the purposes of their buildings and are inclined to let structural forms speak for themselves, they are concerned about the grace of their designs. All this can be clearly seen in three of the book...