tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post9072200942777362964..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: Bronx Community College Campus: My PicturesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-53973669654103665102015-11-03T10:36:55.324-05:002015-11-03T10:36:55.324-05:00There is a complete guidebook that has everything ...There is a complete guidebook that has everything you want to know about each bust including quotes, but it is long out of print. It is titled "Great Americans: A Guide to the Hall of Fame For Great Americans." published by New York University. The most recent edition is 1977. There is no ISBN number. You can probably find a copy in the libraries at Bronx Community College or the NYU campus in New York.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-29713689328565043002015-11-03T09:54:38.954-05:002015-11-03T09:54:38.954-05:00Visited for the second time on Saturday. My husban...Visited for the second time on Saturday. My husband and I would like a list of the quotes under the busts. Are they available? Not in our tour guide brouchure much to our disappointment!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10070460772849756354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-27894510731596059542012-08-06T06:31:50.458-04:002012-08-06T06:31:50.458-04:00I agree with you about the 1960s stuff. It really...I agree with you about the 1960s stuff. It really hasn't aged well at all. It looks like yesterday's science fiction.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-23024052033698913082012-08-06T00:58:57.841-04:002012-08-06T00:58:57.841-04:00Fascinating. I had no idea that NYU had moved. B...Fascinating. I had no idea that NYU had moved. Beautiful neo-classical architecture of that period and l love the poor damaged dome... how symbolic of the era. Yes, a dying (or dead) age. But sorry, the 1960s stuff looks industrial and ungracious....hasn't aged well at all. Perhaps that says more about me.<br /><br />ITAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-53361014570004356852012-08-05T06:57:33.355-04:002012-08-05T06:57:33.355-04:00From what I'm told, someone planted a bomb in ...From what I'm told, someone planted a bomb in the auditorium under the rotunda of Gould Memorial Library. When it exploded, it totally destroyed the auditorium. The blast shot up through a glass floor in the rotunda all the way up to the skylight in the dome and shattered the glass. I presume that this was done to protest either the invasion of Cambodia or Kent State or both in 1970.<br /><br />Indeed, Capitol Plaza in Albany is about as brutal as you can get. As one critic said, the plaza is so out of scale that the marble looks like formica.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-14591764640755129782012-08-05T03:52:09.874-04:002012-08-05T03:52:09.874-04:00Was there something about a red velvet swing? (jus...Was there something about a red velvet swing? (just from memory, re Nesbit. OCICBW.)<br /><br />Fascinating tour, Doug.<br /><br />"destroyed by an anarchist bomb in 1970": uff da. What possible justification could there be for that? In a library?<br /><br />"brutal modernism": that ugly state esplanade in Albany (NY) comes to mind?JCFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-7096359500345713302012-08-04T18:53:58.650-04:002012-08-04T18:53:58.650-04:00Yes, that's it, Counterlight. I didn't be...Yes, that's it, Counterlight. I didn't begin to know how to Google to try to find the title.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-37330737714426061482012-08-04T18:46:13.685-04:002012-08-04T18:46:13.685-04:00Would that novel be E.L. Doctorow's "Ragt...Would that novel be E.L. Doctorow's "Ragtime?"Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-65025840186620996712012-08-04T15:53:16.950-04:002012-08-04T15:53:16.950-04:00Bliss Hall. You happy, happy man in Bliss on the ...Bliss Hall. You happy, happy man in Bliss on the job every day. How many people can say that?<br /><br />Doug, what a marvelous example of your tour-de-force posts. Just on the basis of it, the college should give you a raise. <br /><br />Stanford White's designs are amazing. I'm so pleased they were not torn down, and I hope the old library will get a proper restoration. It's a beautiful building.<br /><br />I learned about l'affaire Stanford White from a work of fiction which included real people as characters in the novel, but I cannot remember the title.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.com