Word: kung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last semester, varsity squash player Chris Gabrieli was struck by the strength and flexibility of the Harvard Kung Fu Club members...
...went to the Kung Fu club's exhibition because I was thinking of joining the club in order to improve my limited flexibility and coordination on the squash court," Gabrieli said. "Besides, I figured at least I would learn how to break every bone in the body of anyone who beat me. So when Frank Merrill (the president of the club) asked for a volunteer from the audience, I gladly came forward. Merrill asked me to hold a board which he would split by the sheer force of one punch. You can imagine how difficult it was to explain...
...oven; in Cambridge, Mass. Upon his retirement in 1950, Marshall fulfilled a lifelong interest in anthropology by taking his family on an expedition to study the Bushman of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, an adventure later recounted in The Harmless People (1959) by his daughter, Elizabeth, and The !Kung of Nyae Nyae (1976) by his wife Lorna...
...Kung maintains that the whole Catholic Church can be considered unerring, but that an individual pope's infallibility is out of line with the history of the church," Francine Carpman, a professor at the Weston School of Theology, said yesterday. She added that "because Kung's works are polemical he has become on of today's most controversial theologians...
...Kung's latest works, such as 'Why does God Exist?' deal with issues affecting the broad scope of Christianity. He is one of the most important theologians of our time, and for this reason we wanted him to speak at Harvard," Jane Redmount, an official at the Divinity School, said yesterday...