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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 29, 2023
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” (1 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 22, 2023
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 October 15, 2023
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 October 8, 2023
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 October 1, 2023
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 24, 2023
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 September 17, 2023
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 September 10, 2023
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: ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 3, 2023
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 27, 2023
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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