Word: fetishizing
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Speaking of museums, brings to mind a touching little item in the history of Fogg Art Museum's publicity efforts. It seems that the directors of the Fogg arranged for an exhibit of native African jewelfy, ceremonial masks, fetish figures, and other nick knacks so dear to the home-loving jungle resident. A report of the exhibit appeared in several newspapers...
...when a country refuses to accept gold as the final discharge of a commercial obligation, free trade and cancellation become sole alternatives. The choice between cancellation and free trade is politically no choice at all; and the outcome, even if no more than the destruction of another meaningless political fetish, the tariff, will have more than earned the professors their salt...
...election on a gold-standard, sound-money platform. At Des Moines he shocked his followers by declaring that a few months prior, the U. S. had been within two weeks of being forced off gold. To the Republicans the gold standard and "hard money" became a political fetish with which to frighten the electorate. But the electorate refused to be frightened and the Republicans lost the Presidency. Last January in the Senate inflationists mustered 18 votes for the Bryanesque 16-to-1 free coinage of silver, most discredited of the quantitative money proposals, and their drive seemed definitely halted (TIME...
Along the Panama coast he left his impress. There still is a Caledonia Bay and a Puerto Escocés. The San Blas Indians occasionally breed a blond child. When the San Blas and Choco medicine men want to carve a really imposing fetish on a medicine cane, they give long-nosed William Paterson a waistcoat, shirt, necktie, collar, buttons, striped trousers, paint his coat black or green...
...Connecticut. Too slow for the ducks, one eagle dives at them, drives them down to the water, then the other dives, then the first, and so on for perhaps 15 minutes until the ducks are exhausted, can be caught. In all his paintings, Rex Brasher has made a fetish of getting right the living color of feet, beak and the soft part around the eyes, rarely shown accurately. He spent three days getting a sketch of the comparatively common grasshopper sparrow, a hard-running, covert-loving bird. Once he lay for hours in icy water in Shinnecock Bay to catch...