Here I am at 4 in the morning reading the OED entry for "mystic." See previous post for context.
I have to open a new post to show you something I found that has nothing to do with the "mystical cord" [sic] that was or may have been Queen Elizabeth.
For years now, I've run into the name Donald Trump not only in the many, many stories about him but in all sorts of articles that have nothing to do with him. Just now, I found this in the OED, under the meaning "Of or relating to mysterious or occult rites or practices":
Look at Spy Magazine, in there with all those exalted poets. I remember when Spy Magazine was new, and I read it throughout its run (1986 to 1998). I remember when the main thing I knew about Donald Trump was that Spy Magazine would always call him "short-fingered." Those were simpler times.1577 in T. Thomson Acts & Proc. Kirk of Scotl. (1839) I. 384 The heid given to the laird of Dun..being thocht be him obscure and mystick....1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 42 Their filthines was hid, but the mystick reason therof known to their Sages.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 212 I have search'd the Mystick Rolls of Fate [L. fatorum arcana].1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xi. 59 And mutter'd vows, and mystic song apply'd To griesly Pluto, and his gloomy bride.1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel v. xxvii. 151 Cared not the Ladye to betray Her mystic arts in view of day....1911 F. H. Burnett Secret Garden xxiv. 261 Every beautiful morning the Magic was worked by the mystic circle under the plum-tree.1996 Spy (N.Y.) Apr. 28/1 Short-fingered acolyte Donald Trump may have been introduced to the mystic secrets of the East by dim New-Agey trophy wife Marla.
Ah! I've found the old issue of Spy — here. It's an article about Feng Shui, analyzing various NYC buildings, with the help of R.D. Chin. Here's what the OED found worthy of its list of "mystic" quotes:
And right next to that:
We don't joke about improving the energy of the World Trade Center with chintz curtains anymore. We don't fixate on the size of Donald Trump hands. And it's been a long time since it seemed pleasingly cheeky to say things like "mystic secrets of the East."
११ टिप्पण्या:
"Add a round element to the wall:it would help Trump's marriage"
You might not believe this, little fella, but it'll cure your Asthma too!
Short-fingered is a Homeric epithet, like strong-ankled for Hillary.
That trash talk from the Clinton era does not age well…
Van Morrison, Into the Mystic.
What Bob said at 7:17.
What will these people do with themselves when Donald Trump is no longer on the scene? They'll find someone else for their two-minute hates, but it will never be the same.
I read Spy too. Their abuse of Trump wasn't overtly political. He wasn't in politics then. They thought of him as a vulgar loudmouth. They hated the New York Times' Abe Rosenthal, too, for similar reasons, but the joking and the emphasis on style could be a smokescreen for political motivations, as we see now. In those days, the line was "we are rich and privileged, or we live on the fringe of that world and aspire to join it, but we have style and wit" now it's "we are rich and privileged but we are politically correct and progressive." Politics has been in the background or middleground of urban aspirations to hipness and knowingness for decades. Now it's up front.
twin mausoleums of Bauhaus
Wow.
Spy Magazine is the publication that sends Jimmy Stewart to report on Katharine Hepburn's wedding in "The Philadelphia Story". It was a sleaze job.
>>I read Spy too. Their abuse of Trump wasn't overtly political. He wasn't in politics then.
Me too. I remember the references to Trump being a "short-fingered vulgarian." I will readily confess that I had no idea who Trump was and didn't understand half or more of what Spy was railing at. But I still read it.
--gpm
>>Spy Magazine is the publication that sends Jimmy Stewart to report on Katharine Hepburn's wedding in "The Philadelphia Story".
Didn't Dinah (I love me some Virginia Weidler) say that she loved it?
--gpm
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