Word: do-it-yourself
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...fact that one was treated at home by her husband led him to hope that the technique can be made safe for widespread use. At the same meeting of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs where Dr. Merrill made his report. Seattle's Dr. Belding Scribner carried the do-it-yourself idea a long step farther. Though the irrigation has to be repeated over several hours with a total of about 20 qt. of fluid. Dr. Scribner described a machine with a reservoir and an automatic cycling system with which, he suggested, a patient might be able...
...Erector Sets now include the materials to build rocket launchers and satellite trackers. Scientific toys, regular catalogue items for four years at F.A.O. Schwarz and other big stores, are even bigger this year. Latest entrant: General Electric, which is aiming at the pre-teen market with a variety of advanced do-it-yourself kits (analogue computer, transistor radio, electricity lab). Two big sellers are Ohio Art's Magnastiks, a construction toy that utilizes a magnetic field, and Etch A Sketch, an updated and challenging version of the old magic slate idea...
...seems to me that the American people are being tricked into accepting nuclear war as the only solution of the Berlin crisis. The construction of fallout shelters is a red herring being used to engage the attention of the gadget-loving, do-it-yourself, construction-happy American...
...places means art robbed of its right associations, its exact forms, its concentrated power. We are grateful for the comprehensive repertoire which modern industry for the first time puts within our reach, but we turn sick at the aggressive temptation, like the novice in the sweetshop. Even the otherwise commendable Do-it-yourself movement, represented by the Sunday painter and the Friday evening singer or player, contributes to the dissipation of the artistic tradition; high art was not made for these uses...
Described by one critic as ''a sort of do-it-yourself urban folk music." trad rests mainly on the standard instruments-clarinet, trumpet, trombone-but now and again tosses in a banjo for such provincial classics as Waiting for the Robert E. Lee. Chris Barber's Jazzband founded the movement with a bestselling version of Sidney Bechet's Petite Flew, and now the trad bands are so popular that they play everywhere-not only for jazz clubs and festivals, but also at debutante parties, society dances, on trans-Channel steamers, even waist-deep in swimming pools...