NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 9, 2018
Avoidance of pain sounds attractive, but it easily translates into avoidance of responsibility, a running away from the very realities to which we must we must be educated, and ag ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 2, 2018
My worry is that we are on a course of decline, notwithstanding our armaments and our per capita income and the number of telephones and automobiles we have. From the book, ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 25, 2018
All is accounted for except the farmer’s boy and the mill hand who lived near the canal, and the young men from the city block where the gutters fry in summer. One o ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 18, 2018
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 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 Au ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 4, 2018
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 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, corrob ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 21, 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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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 ...
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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 ...
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