Eric Sevareid Quotes

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Remembering him [Truman] reminds people what a man in that office ought to be like. It's character, just character. He stands like a rock in memory now.

Eric Sevareid

If acquaintance with the world was not changing [American GIs] very much, acquaintance with them was surely changing the world.

Eric Sevareid

With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.

Eric Sevareid

The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

Eric Sevareid

Britain was painfully closing the gap... between her old position as the smallest of the great powers, to her new one as the greatest of the small powers.

Eric Sevareid

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

Eric Sevareid

The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.

Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid

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Born: November 26, 1912

Died: July 9, 1992 (aged 79)

Bio: Arnold Eric Sevareid was a CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977. He was one of a group of elite war correspondents hired by pioneering CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, and thus dubbed "Murrow's Boys".

Known for:

Canoeing with the Cree (1935)
Not So Wild a Dream (1946)
Conversations with Eric Sevareid (1976)

Eric Sevareid on Wikipedia

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