Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MacDonald charged that the customer's reaction was built into mass art. "Liberace visually underlines appropriate sentiments as he plays, so that even the most musically illiterate can tell what the music means...
...disclaimer) provision would present no barrier to those it is designed to catch, it is ineffective... As a kind of test-oath substituting an implied threat of coercion for persuasion in the realm of ideas, it seems counter to the philosophical principles on which our national strength has been built. It also seems to imply interference on the part of the government in an area of administration which belongs properly without restriction to free institutions of higher learning...
...Fogg devotedly displays the death mask of the artist, wreathed by laurel leaves, and, in another, placed potted ivies. This tasteful presentation complements the subdued, distinctiveness of the works exhibited. It is also a tribute to the knowing connoisseurship of Stefa and Leon Brillouin who have over the years built up this valuable collection...
...befitted a king of cannonry, Alfred built a palace (the Villa Huegel), a monstrous Victorian pile of 160 rooms. To avoid drafts, the windows were permanently sealed. Alfred's own den was built over the stables, as he believed that horse-manure fumes stimulated thought. His most pungent effort was the Generalregulativ, a book of rules that established the Fuehrerprinzip at Krupp's a good half century before der Fuehrer. Alfred dictated his workers' lives down to prescribing their off-duty shoes (wooden clogs). His wife took 25 years of the same niggling, then fled. When...
...delirium (he later claimed it was soap) and nibbled the trimmings on Alice Toklas' hat. There was Alfred Jarry, an absinthe-minded playwright who carried a revolver and once shot down "some obstreperous nightingales." Oddest of all was Gerald Berners, an English lord who had a tiny piano built into his Rolls, and would flash a white mask at villagers, whose terror grew as ghostly strains of Scarlatti wafted from the disappearing...