In undertaking his study of the Kabbalah, Scholem conducted a herculean analysis of countless texts long viewed by Jewish historians as nonsense the mad, titanic systems concocted by religious figures dancing on the brink of heresy, intent on grappling with the most profound, irrational mysteries of the universe.
And I do mean little, as 3D Systems concocted a portable affair that's about the size of a small hardback or staple gun.
In February, the ACLU criticised a leaked bulletin from the North Central Texas Fusion System that concocted a crazy conspiracy theory that Muslim civil rights and anti-war activists were working together to spread sharia law inside the United States, which even if true, would not be illegal.
The directors of Selfridges, an upmarket British department store, commissioned the firm Future Systems to concoct a visually arresting building for its branch in a new shopping center in the heart of Birmingham, England.
It was a system for concocting expectation, a machine for making the future.
But again, as my TC colleague Josh Constine pointed out, the parental consent system Facebook has concocted is laughably easy for teens to circumvent — merely requiring they select one of their Facebook friends or just enter an email address (which could literally be an alternative email address they themselves control).
When President George W. Bush established a prison at Guantánamo Bay on land rented from the Cuban dictatorship, held detainees without charge, often without evidence, and then concocted a system of "military tribunals" to try those detainees, he effectively created a separate justice system.
In describing the frustrations of the New York City school system through absurd (but concocted) directives from the anonymous bureaucracy, Ms. Kaufman reassured countless teachers who were burned out that they were not alone.
In one such aside we learn that the actor who was considered too tall, too thin, too gawky and too lukewarm for long-term stardom was also too physically weak to support Margaret Sullavan, his leading lady in The Mortal Storm: A special pulley system had to be concocted to make it appear that Jimmy was able to heroically carry Sullavan.
To convince U.S. citizens and global investors that all is well with the American banking system, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner concocted misnamed "stress tests" to demonstrate the fiscal health of the country's banks.
Another 80 are scheduled to face trial by Military Commission, a system of show trials concocted by Dick Cheney and his advisors in November 2001, but as these, like the tribunals, rely on secret evidence obtained through the torture, coercion or bribery of other detainees, and have yet to produce a single significant victory, it remains unclear if they will ever function adequately.
