She pointed out the cast-iron glories of building after building, as they walked down Broadway, onto Prince & Greene Sts., & back to Broadway again.
Sharing the dress and the power drill won't make us less - it will turn us into more: we will become a community that understands and lives by the truth that the struggle and the glory of building a better world are shared tasks, crowd-sourced by all those who want a part in it.
"The glory of this building, which is the pure, crystalline, indirect light — diffuse light — was substantially compromised," Jeremy Strick, the Nasher's director, said of the center in an interview.
But the larger goal is to restore the glory of the 1930 building, said Jon Yanofsky, the Paramount's new executive director.
The sculpture, part of a building bonanza that has also erected gothic edifices, grandiose bridges and a triumphal arch, has been billed as the project's crowning glory.
Nicole Loraux wrote of a bygone culture, "The glory of a woman was to have no glory".
We put down our pen and put away our papers, and, pocketing a book of lyric verse, we walked out of the building into the uncertain glory of an April day...we came at last to the Park and our bench in its green shade...and thought some more about old books and young April, and regreened.
On Radio 4's Start the Week, James Crawford, publicising his new book about vanished buildings, Fallen Glory, argued that, in a building's lifespan, decline and damage are "part of the story".
Something similar could be said of the flawed glory of the Lloyd's building across the street.
It was true of ancient Rome and it was true in the 20th century, when American quasi-imperial might was manifested in the rise of abstract expressionism and the glory of the Empire State Building.
