NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 6, 2017
Radio has changed the world. It was a development by which a voice, a single voice, could be heard worldwide by millions of people. And that is a political instrument whose ramifi ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 30, 2017
The men who were masterless but free now have a master but no freedom. However, they have discipline and a scapegoat, and one can go far on that. “On A Note Of Triumph” bro ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 23, 2017
As a people, as a culture, we have become so alienated from poetry that whenever a playwright has the pluck to raise his language above the colloquial, or goes beyond the permissi ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 16, 2017
To win is great; to learn from winning, greater—but to put the lessons learnt from winning hard to work, that is the neatest trick of all. “On A Note Of Triumph” broadcast May 8 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 9, 2017
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 July 2, 2017
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, 2017
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. ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 18, 2017
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 autho ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 11, 2017
Lobbyist 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 contribu ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 4, 2017
Well for one thing, knights are very hard on giants. Merely to be a giant is an abominable wrong, a grievously conspicuous sign of evil. And giants must have magnificent names, wh ...
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