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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 11, 2018
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 October 28, 2018
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 ...
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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 14, 2018
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 7, 2018
We communicate by words that were minted, wrought, jointed, conjugated, inflected by workers in language. “More Fun than Fun” from the book “Holes in a Stained Glass Window” (1978) ...
Read More »NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 30, 2018
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 1 ...
Read More »NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 23, 2018
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 September 16, 2018
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 September 9, 2018
I never have an outline before I begin. It’s all chaos. From the book, “Years of the Electric Ear” (1994) ...
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