Word: do-it-yourself
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...least a dozen U.S. campuses, the dream of friendly, examless, do-it-yourself learning has become a reality, as students, frequently with faculty help, have set up self-styled "free universities" and "experimental colleges...
...psychiatrists and psychologists. Serious, important work is done by these practitioners-at least, by most of them-but their work is surrounded by a penumbra of popularization. Ever since the U.S. adopted Freud as a major prophet in the 1920s and '30s, more and more Americans have turned into do-it-yourself psychologists...
...estimated 110,000 viewers. Each 45-minute installment is entirely authentic, culled from a video-taped therapy session two to three hours long, complete with real tears, confessions and accusations (obscenities are blipped out). These sessions, of course, are professionally guided, but their exposure on television contributes mightily to do-it-yourself analysis...
Beyond those basic facts, the West could see no more than the Chinese fireworks ignited by Mao's fulminating Red Guards, who since last month have been everywhere imposing a new discipline, a new austerity and a new concept that amount to a do-it-yourself revolution...
That the show was not in the capital was the U.S.'s own choice. Explained a State Department spokesman: "We wanted to get the stuff out into the countryside." Featured in the exhibition was a typical, if mundane, fixture of American life: do-it-yourself hand tools turned out by 85 U.S. manufacturers...