Word: fetishizing
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...fetish, that men must be satisfied while women must be virtuous" is being discarded, the enlightened modern declares. "Forty fraternity boys on our campus (Rollins?) were discussing the kind of wives they wanted (Snow White or D. Durbin?). Not one of them would marry a girl whom he believed to be dishonest, but only one] (Cotton Mather?) demanded virginity in his bride. Since most of us girls expect to marry college graduates, or their intellectual equivalents that is an answer...
...classics: he pines to do a real mystery, a real farce, a British pantomime, a fast revue, a Mozart opera. He has shown in Heartbreak House, with its careful, elegant sets by John Koenig, that the sceneryless stage of Julius Caesar and The Cradle Will Rock was not the fetish of a flash in the Pantheon, but simply a well-timed theatrical stunt. The brightest moon that has risen over Broadway in years, Welles should feel at home in the sky, for the sky is the only limit his ambitions recognize...
...play show's the strange, tragic comradeship of Lennie, a huge, fetish-bound dullard whose innocent pleasure was to pet small, furry things, whose vice was his crazy strength that inevitably killed the things he loved to touch; and George, a wiry, roadwise nomad whose chief job in life was looking after Lennie. The hopeless fairy tale that George (Wallace Ford) tells Lennie (Broderick Crawford) over and over about the little house on the little piece o' land, with an alfalfa patch and rabbits for Lennie to pet, where one day they will live "off the fatta...
...Ontario to Alaska. Settling in Seattle, he got into Seattle's municipal power business at the beginning, has been there ever since so effectively that Seattle has lighting superior in quality and in cheapness to many bigger U. S. cities. Municipal control of power-is something of a fetish in Seattle and City Light Superintendent Ross became so idolized that when Mayor Frank Edwards fired him, the voters promptly fired Mayor Edwards by recall...
...artists who have been aware for twenty years of the vigor of African Negro sculpture-so aware that their camp followers have made fetish figures fashionable and thereby encouraged Paris ateliers to fake them by the carload-the Lips book will have value in clarifying the historical background of an unassimilated artistic influence and indicating the future possibilities of its assimilation. Professor Lios insists that all analogies between genuine primitive art and the drawings or modelings of children are unsuccessful. Savage kingdoms in Africa and the South Seas, for example, developed through settled centuries a mastery of their native materials...