"'None of us has ever liked the World Trade Towers very much,' he said."
I'm a fan of Vincent Scully. But here he's wrong. Those of us snobs who had never liked the towers got used to them, and grew to see them with new eyes when Philippe Petit, high up, danced back and forth between them. Then when they came down, we mourned for them and…
"'None of us has ever liked the World Trade Towers very much,' he said."
I'm a fan of Vincent Scully. But here he's wrong. Those of us snobs who had never liked the towers got used to them, and grew to see them with new eyes when Philippe Petit, high up, danced back and forth between them. Then when they came down, we mourned for them and the lives inside them.
It is impossible for me to remember September 11 and not compare it to October 7. I'm not Jewish, but I have eyes to see.
Today, the Jihadists aren't from over there, on visas: They're here, they're teaching our kids, they're running our city governments, they're in Congress cheering on the savaging of our monuments and streetscapes.
"None of us has ever liked the Word Trade Towers very much."--- Vincent Scully
Setting aside the mass spillage of innocent blood, or even of big time evil---the Trade Center towers were the two most gargantuan, unoriginal, aesthetically moronic globs of banality ever to be inflicted on the citizens of this country.
Hitler would have loved them.
Stalin would have plumped for something more soul-crushingly ugly.
But, actually, who cares. After all: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people." --- H.L.M.
"'None of us has ever liked the World Trade Towers very much,' he said."
I'm a fan of Vincent Scully. But here he's wrong. Those of us snobs who had never liked the towers got used to them, and grew to see them with new eyes when Philippe Petit, high up, danced back and forth between them. Then when they came down, we mourned for them and the lives inside them.
It is impossible for me to remember September 11 and not compare it to October 7. I'm not Jewish, but I have eyes to see.
Today, the Jihadists aren't from over there, on visas: They're here, they're teaching our kids, they're running our city governments, they're in Congress cheering on the savaging of our monuments and streetscapes.
And some are advising our feeble president.
Absolutely!!
"None of us has ever liked the Word Trade Towers very much."--- Vincent Scully
Setting aside the mass spillage of innocent blood, or even of big time evil---the Trade Center towers were the two most gargantuan, unoriginal, aesthetically moronic globs of banality ever to be inflicted on the citizens of this country.
Hitler would have loved them.
Stalin would have plumped for something more soul-crushingly ugly.
But, actually, who cares. After all: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people." --- H.L.M.