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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 24, 2013
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 B ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 17, 2013
I think that the electorate in many countries, particularly in America, has been dumbed down by the worst elements of radio and television, where a single opinion-spouter, an oracle, is on the air spe ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 10, 2013
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 November 3, 2013
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 October 27, 2013
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 October 20, 2013
This much a woman knows of stratagem: The unsheathed breast is keener than the naked sword. “Samson” broadcast August 10, 1941 on CBS ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 13, 2013
As has been shown in enough instances to indicate a pattern, a tough answer turneth away rats. Letter to Jerry Wald and Norman Krasna, October 5, 1951, from the book “Norman Corwin’s Letters” ( ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 6, 2013
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 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 29, 2013
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 Y ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 22, 2013
The imagination needs regular exercise in this prosaic world of stock market reports, body counts, traffic bulletins, tax laws, yellow pages and questionnaires. If the arts don’t give us fantasy, the ...
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