NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 20, 2023
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 Intervi ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 13, 2023
Numbers. The stuff of astronomy, commerce, and body counts: A thousand—a hundred thousand—a million—ten million—thirty million—tidy figures, simple to write, easy to say, but hard ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 6, 2023
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 smal ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 30, 2023
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 23, 2023
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 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 16, 2023
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 July 9, 2023
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 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 2, 2023
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 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 25, 2023
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 un ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 18, 2023
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 ...
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