NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 9, 2015
There is to me something ungracious, not only in style but in manners, about the use of words that the writer knows very well are Greek to the general reader. “Smith and th ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 2, 2015
The tankman will drive a powered lawn mower while his father watches. The pilot with many missions will do errands for some civilian company. The bombardier, who crushed a city in ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 26, 2015
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 Au ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 19, 2015
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 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 12, 2015
It slanders hell to compare it to war, because the hell of mythology and religion, although superheated and stocked with torments, are in their way, discreet and proper. Only the ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 5, 2015
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, corrob ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 28, 2015
And greetings, immigrant multitudes who were bid good morrows and good fortune by the Statue—the millions who came, saw, toiled and begat, who created as descent a society as ever ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 21, 2015
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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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 14, 2015
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 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 7, 2015
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 ...
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