Word: sundial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TUESDAY, APRIL 23 -- Noon. At the sundial are 500 people ready to follow Mark Rudd (whom they don't particularly like because he always refers to President Kirk as "that shit-head"), into the Low Library administration building to conduct a demonstration against IDA and the gym and test Kirk's anti--indoor demonstration edict. There are around 100 counter-demonstrators. They are what Trustee Arthur Hays Sulzberger's newspaper refers to as "burly white youths" or "students of considerable athletic attainment"--jocks. Various deans and other father surrogates separate the two factions. Low Library is locked. For lack...
...usual hassle order is restored and the cops let Rudd mount a dirt pile to address us. As soon as he starts to talk he is drowned out by jack hammers but at the request of the police they are turned off. Rudd suggests we go back to the sundial and join with 300 demonstrators there, but we know that he couldn't possibly know whether there are 300 demonstrators there and we don't want to leave. He persists and we defer...
...noon, the Columbia Students for a Democratic Society sponsored an anti-war rally around the nearby sundial -- a traditional center of campus demonstrations. After an hour of speeches, the demonstrators marched to the dormitory to confront the recruiters...
...before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, everything looked rosy. Manny Celler. appearing as a witness, was almost lyrical about Cooper: "I gained great respect for this literate, articulate and erudite man ... I am proud to say that he is a good friend of mine-not merely a sundial friend, worthless when the sun goes down." After Celler finished, a parade of witnesses followed to add their praise of Cooper. Then, on the second day of hearings, New York City's Association of the Bar, which had announced its opposition to Cooper, produced a string of witnesses...
Built on a saddle between two peaks, Machu Picchu is surrounded by a granite wall, can be entered only by one main gate. Inside is a maze of a thousand ruined houses, temples, palaces, and staircases, all hewn from white granite and dominated by a great granite sundial. In Quechua, language of the sun-worshipping Incas and their present-day descendants, the dial was known as Intihuatana-hitching post...