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The quote Professor Fowler reads on the statue's plinth, "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity", is the motto of Rod Serling's alma mater Antioch College, and was spoken by its first president Horace Mann at the college's first commencement. Serling accepted a teaching post there after completing this script. [1]
Serling was born on December 25, 1924, in Syracuse, New York, to a Jewish family. [2] He was the second of two sons born to Esther (née Cooper, 1893–1958), a homemaker, and Samuel Lawrence Serling (1892–1945). [3]
It's August, 1945, the last grimy pages of a dirty, torn book of war. The place is the Philippine Islands.The men are what's left of a platoon of American infantry, whose dulled and tired eyes set deep in dulled and tired faces can now look toward a miracle, that moment when the nightmare appears to be coming to an end.
The Twilight Zone creator and screenwriter Rod Serling would celebrate his 100th birthday on Dec. 25, 2024. Rod's daughter, Anne Serling, and TV writer, Marc Scott Zicree, ...
The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling, who died at age 50 in 1975, would have turned 100 this Christmas Day. In addition to launching one of the most recognizable television shows in history, the ...
Unusually, Serling appears on camera to deliver the closing narration. The Chancellor, the late Chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshiped. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete.
For the show's host and writer, Rod Serling, World War II was a trauma he would re-imagine ofte. In a famous “Twilight Zone” episode from the early 1960s, a bloodthirsty World War II commander ...
Let this be the postscript — Should you be worn out by the rigors of competing in a very competitive world, if you're distraught from having to share your existence with the noises and neuroses of the twentieth century, if you crave serenity but want it full time and with no strings attached, get yourself a workroom in the basement, and then drop a note to Dr. and Mrs. William Loren.