About Patrick Losey
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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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 5, 2020
Our Lady of the Freedoms, she might be called. Mother of Exiles, she has been called. The torch, from which sculptured flames billow, is not incendiary, not intended to set a fire, but to glow as a be ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 28, 2020
Most of the Founding Fathers, were they able to tune in from the spirit world, would probably come to the conclusion that American democracy, as practiced today, is a failure. The majority of our elec ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 21, 2020
I verify this thing: that brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those who profit by postponing it pretend. “Psalm for a Dark Year” broadcast November 9, 1941 on CBS ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 14, 2020
Funny, isn’t it—the blokes who do all the squawking and yammering are never the ones who do any of the fighting. “This is War!” episode “To the Young” broadcast May 2, 1942 on CBS, NBC Red, NBC Blue a ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 7, 2020
The nations have heard of the fission of the atom and have seen the photographs: skies aboil with interlocking fury, mushrooms of uranium smoke ascending to where angels patrol uneasily. “Set You Cloc ...
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