[lit-ideas] The Dude
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:15:35 EDT
In a message dated 3/11/2009 10:33:35 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx writes:
As for Socrates and boys, the connection between eros and learning was
recognized by the ancient Greeks. Guy Davenport takes up the topic in
his essay "Eros, His Intelligence," from _The Hunter Gracchus_, p. 135.
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1890 Teacher (N.Y.) Sept. 101 Are we traveling the way of the Greeks?.. Is
dudism becoming more contagious among us than philanthropy?
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1886 A. LANG in Longm. Mag. Mar. 553 Our novels establish a false ideal in
the American imagination, and the result is that mysterious being ‘The Dude’.
I guess one can challenge the OED that it has to do with the 'aesthetic
craze of that day'. First, what day? I would think, and Geary would think with
me, that the term is more general.
1883 Graphic 31 Mar. 319/1 The ‘Dude’ sounds like the name of a bird. It
is, on the contrary, American slang for a new kind of American young man..The
one object for which the dude exists is to tone down the eccentricities of
fashion..The silent, subfusc, subdued ‘dude’ hands down the traditions of good
form.
1883 North Adams (Mass.) Transcript 24 June, The new coined word ‘dude’
..has travelled over the country with a great deal of rapidity since but two
months ago it grew into general use in New York.
Cheers,
JLS
'The Bud'
1889 Bookworm 237 Any dudish Anglo~maniac or Fifth Avenue ‘bud’.
"You wish" -- R. Paul.
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