About Patrick Losey
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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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 2, 2020
Poverty is an old as hunger, but in a world where massive government buildings, super-supermarkets, sprawling theme parks, city-sized airports and colossal stadiums rise overnight, where a star pitche ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 26, 2020
There’s really one language in the world: that is the language of responsible conscience and awareness, the worldwide instinct for freedom. “The Poet Laureate of Radio: An Interview with Norman Corwin ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 19, 2020
A major radio news station has a slogan which it repeats throughout the day: “Give us 22 minutes, and we’ll give you the world.” No doubt the world has grown smaller—but that small? “The Iron Bed” fro ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 12, 2020
The microphone is not an ordinary instrument. For it looks out on vistas wide indeed. “Seems Radio Is Here To Stay” broadcast April 24,1939 on CBS ...
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