Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saroyan's Heir. But there were some pretty substantial new plays, true though it was that many of them (Mister Roberts, Command Decision, The Heiress) had previously been books. And there was, at last, what almost everybody regarded as a substantial young playwright: Tennessee Williams, whose Streetcar Named Desire won both the Critics' Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize-a feat achieved only once before, by William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life...
...Harvey finally went to Universal-International in a record sale - a million dollars plus percentages; Born Yesterday to Columbia for a million flat; Annie Get Your Gun to M-G-M for $650,000. But only one of 1947-48's plays went for anything worth noting: Command Decision to M-G-M for a $100,000 down payment...
MECHANIZATION TAKES COMMAND (743 pp.) -Siegfried Gledlon- Oxford...
Brainchild of Switzerland's 55-year-old Professor Giedion-whose Space, Time and Architecture (1941) was a notable technical study-Mechanization Takes Command takes a tremendous stab at measuring the changeable human animal against the tools and technical appliances which have been associated with him from the early records of history to the present day. Professor Giedion holds that "the sun is mirrored even in a coffee spoon," looks for the truth about man in "humble things," and finds Hitler and Napoleon no more instructive than Linus Yale (locks), Clarence Birdseye (frozen food) and Sylvester Graham (bread...
...lacrosse coaching command also announced that the following Freshmen had won numerals: Beckjord, Brown, Cantwell, Clark, Coburn, Cowen, Cowles, Fortmiller, Goodhue, Graham, Hansen, Hudner (captain), McGuire, Plissner, Post, Shuttleworth, Talbot, Taylor, Thayer, Waring, Young...