Word: fetishizing
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...Board had teeth. A well-stocked automaker who refused to limit production was told his coal would be commandeered by the Navy; other recalcitrants could not get railroad cars. Yet rarely were the teeth even bared. Working through war service committees in each industry, the Board made a fetish of putting its decisions in the forms of requests, let patriots carry them out voluntarily. Boasted Baruch: "Not one [industry] had to be coerced." Said Wilson: "The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people." But a different tribute to the Board came from Hindenburg...
Another standard of taste evident in the modern concert program is a love for music with pictorial effects and instrumental coloring, music with a story in it. This preference, a by-product of the modern fetish of realism, is responsible for the continued popularity of tone-poems and ballet-music. A lusty theme for the hero, a gentle little melody for his lady-love, a spinning theme and perhaps a brook motif: these seem irresistible to American audiences...
...feats of physique-jumping a horse over a car, pole vaulting, diving over parallel bars, plunging through rings of fire. In his gaudy office, where he is protected by an always-loaded, pearl-handled revolver and by a solid gold Virgin, he has thought up many a mystic fetish, many a fiendish thuggery. He abolished the handshake in Italy. He designed the black Fascist uniform. He is generally supposed to have been one of the inventors of the castor-oil technique of punishing political recalcitrants. And he has been one of the most important nuts keeping Rome tightly screwed...
...member of William Woodward's family shares his fetish for horses. They are always on deck for the big races (Mr. Woodward sometimes regrets that his box is not big enough to hold them all), but when it comes to rock-bottom horse talk, William Woodward's best crony is the man who has trained his horses for 16 years, big, moonfaced, 65-year-old James Edward Fitzsimmons...
...those 14 years, earnest, honest Lou Gehrig, the sort of player managers dream about, made a fetish of his endurance record. Eclipsed by his colorful, temperamental teammate Babe Ruth, plodding Lou Gehrig felt that his drawing power was his dependability rather than his brilliance. When, at spring training camp this year, the Iron Horse suddenly realized that he was getting rusty, panic overtook him. He brooded, became tense at bat. Sportswriters, viewing his feeble performance, wrote his batting obituary-for all the world to read - before the season started...