David Custis Kimball - blog
You: Why Dave; why now?
Me: Well, I've two talented kids; the younger mentioned my stopping with the lectures. Then enthusiastically asked, 'Dad, can I help you set up a blog?' Moments later, Me: 'OK, that's great, thinkin' they might just read it someday.
me ---> 'Gaarr of Blog', aka General Synthesist or da..d <---
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An Inspired Mappable Ponderosity:
'To say: "He is a man of truth," is to say nothing; to say: "He is a man of of," is to state an elementary truth of logic.'
Winston Davids, 1969 - Trinity College
And thanks for pianoforte: 'Anything from the 14th century on...' and at my wedding: DC, 1979.
History, Real Estate, Humor
Damn that monel spire, that treachery, that conspiracy. The design engineer of the building being constructed on the other side of town at 40 Wall Street shared his designs with the proviso that 40 Wall Street would be the taller, in fact tallest in the world. It was for about a week, until that secret spire was raised from the pinnacle of the Art Nouveau inspired roof. Meanwhile, 1929 came and went, plunging us all into a deep hubris/betrayal generated Great Depression. Henry V. Spurr’s wife, Claire, died of cancer in 1930, the same year, ‘Wind Bracing’ was published by McGraw-Hill, and a year before some plagiarist at MIT submitted a PhD thesis of the same name. Henry Spurr’s company Purdy Henderson advertised in the MIT newspaper and hired the first woman engineer in the 19th century. Spurr returned as one of the highest honored graduates of MIT to lecture about structural/mathematics. Purdy Henderson Corp. went bankrupt in the early 1930’s after about 70 years in business. Spurr in the immediate days after 1931, almost finally dove into a swimming pool without water, but broke no bones. He joined AA. The builder of 40 Wall Street, Starrett Bros. & Eken, then began construction of the Empire State Building, with ‘ridiculous’ zeppelin anchor at the peak, finished in a lackluster few years (40 Wall St. still holds record of old destroyed to finish in one year), but was never fully rented until 1955. The builder used the notes from it’s consulting engineer Purdy & Henderson, and later hired Spurr, who became Vice President, and became the consultant for the government on the Perisphere and Trylon for the 1939 NYC World’s Fair. During the war, Spurr reviewed and designed ships for the Navy. For Starrett Bros & Eken, he designed the Stuyvesant Center on the Hudson for the returning soldiers after the war. People today still comment on its design. It with it’s 40 or so acres sold for the highest price per square foot that any real estate has ever sold for in the mid 2000’s.
So good engineering and the whimsical Art Nouveau tower still stands to challenge the waning man in the moon. I still am uncomfortable in the density of so much humanity as are produced by ‘skyscrapers’. A good friend of mine, artist/farmer AMS Morgan once commented that skyscrapers should be only in the countryside, where the views are always gorgeous.
But here, there is so much distraction that you might miss the Mother image on the right and the infant, nose to nose on the left. I saw this with the upper 1/3 masked a little easier, and without it masked, mom might seem to have some big sunglasses on. Puncturing this nativity is the difficulty in the reality of raising children in the big cities. But then, there is sometimes great suffering with great creation.
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