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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 11, 2020
Just as it is advisable to count the spoons after a guest brags of honesty, it is well to mind particulars when generalities are flying loose. “Simplifications ” from the book “Trivializing America” ( ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 4, 2020
We learned out of World War II that we had learned nothing out of World War I. “The Poet Laureate of Radio: An Interview with Norman Corwin” December 28, 2004 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 27, 2020
Now a compound fracture is a wicked thing, and so is a missing part. For Nature, in all her wisdom and notwithstanding her proven generosity, Made no allowances for blast. “There Will Be Time Later” b ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 20, 2020
There is no term in radio that is equivalent to couch potato or boob tube because the radio listener had to collaborate with what he was hearing as one collaborates with the author of a book when you’ ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 13, 2020
I think that the Golden Age of Radio was the shortest golden age in history. “The Poet Laureate of Radio: An Interview with Norman Corwin” December 28, 2004 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 6, 2020
Lobbyists have the right legally to lobby their heads off directly to the public—through media, barnstorming speeches, and all channels open to free speech—but corporation contributions to candidates ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 30, 2020
Not only are you not isolated in the world, but the world you’re not isolated in, is getting smaller and smaller. “Citizen of the World” broadcast July 10, 1949 on CBS ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 23, 2020
That’s how to prepare a race for slavery. Keep them poor, get them drunk, fill them full of cheap music and dirty corrupt entertainment—if they can afford it on their slave wages. “This is War: The En ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 16, 2020
Numbers. The stuff of astronomy, commerce, and body counts: A thousand—a hundred thousand—a million—ten million—thirty million—tidy figures, simple to write, easy to say, but hard to understand or eve ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 9, 2020
This man who understands the vast complexity of logarithms and who has formulas for light and heat, for logic and hydraulics, and for stress and strain—this same man can divide so poorly there is want ...
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