Word: aikido
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Actually, the possibilities are endless. One girl applying to a West Coast college claimed a blue belt in Aikido. Equally imaginative bids for seeming extra-curricularly exotic have deluged the colleges with alleged harpsichord builders, guinea-pig breeders, inventors of electronic nutcrackers, boy falconers, girls with pet iguanas, adolescent TV producers and fund-raisers for Biafra. One boy wrote starkly, "I have seared the streets," a sign of the new fad for ghetto toil, which is edging out mental-hospital work as an earnest of social conscience. On the other hand, artistic achievement still earns points. To that...
...East-West Institute offers lectures in Oriental philosophy and culture as well as macrobiotic meals. Kushi's latest bulletin lists such courses as Japanese Language and Literature. Tea Ceremony and Flower Arrangement, Aikido (a traditional Japanese martial art), Oriental Cocking, and Oriental Philosophy and its Applications...