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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 5, 2021
Fate and fission were on our side. The wrath of the atom fell like a commandment, and the very planet quivered with implications. “Fifty Years After 14 August” broadcast August 1995 on NPR ...
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For transmitters and presses are not only mechanisms but vehicles—carriers of whatever content is poured into them. They are purveyors of the Word, the ideology, the big or little lie, credulity, or t ...
Read More »NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 21, 2021
All is accounted for except the farmer’s boy and the mill hand who lived near the canal, and the young men from the city block where the gutters fry in summer. ...
Read More »NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 14, 2021
The ultimate in trivialization is to reduce the capacity and will of people to think for themselves. In that exercise mediocritization has always had its strongest support, corroboration and collabora ...
Read More »NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 7, 2021
They’ve given their noons to their country, They’ve trusted their girls to you. They are face to face with an ally’s earth For a bunch of tomorrows. “14 August” broadcast August 14, 1945 on CBS ...
Read More »NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 31, 2021
The lingo is polite as varnish, Sincere as the wax-faced undertaker saying, “We are sorry about your loss.” And after the notes are exchanged, and high respects transmitted like wires on Mothers Day, ...
Read More »NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 24, 2021
Beaches without beachheads. Jobs without sergeants. Gunners who tilted the guns of battleships and stoked them in epic combat, will ride the level ferries of bay and river. “Fifty Years After 14 Augus ...
Read More »NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 17, 2021
Broadcasters are invariably miffed by criticism of their product and practices, and they protest as invariably that they are only giving people what they want. But the people have been conditioned to ...
Read More »NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 10, 2021
I never have an outline before I begin. It’s all chaos. From the book, “Years of the Electric Ear” (1994) ...
Read More »NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 3, 2021
Man is the only animal that smiles, and Americans are the only people who have made an industry of it. “Ready, Aim, Smile” from the book “Trivializing America” (1983) ...
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