Norman Cousins
Norman Cousins was born in Union City, New Jersey, United States on June 24th, 1915 and is the American Journalist. At the age of 75, Norman Cousins biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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He joined the staff of the New York Evening Post (now the New York Post) in 1934, and in 1935 was hired by Current History as a book critic. He later ascended to the position of managing editor. He also befriended the staff of the Saturday Review of Literature (later renamed Saturday Review), which had its offices in the same building, and by 1940, joined the staff of that publication as well. He was named editor-in-chief in 1942, a position he would hold until 1972. Under his direction, circulation of the publication increased from 20,000 to 650,000.
Cousins's philosophy toward his work was exemplified by his instructions to his staff "not just to appraise literature, but to try to serve it, nurture it, safeguard it." Cousins believed that "there is a need for writers who can restore to writing its powerful tradition of leadership in crisis." He was a lifetime believer in the power of hope. "Is it only in my imagination," writes Sarah Shapiro in "An Audience of One," [Mosaica Press 2021] "that you said, 'Optimism is realism,' or was that a principle you nonverbally imparted?" Cousins had no patience for those who consciously bend truth, whether for personal expediency or in the political sphere. The integrity of words, in speech and in writing, was sacred to him. "To the best of my knowledge," writes Shapiro, "you did not lie. You found lying repugnant, beneath human dignity....Gossip bounced off of you; it would not stick....In all my life, you never broke a promise. A man of your word, literally." For Cousins, the honest use of words was an absolute value and the distinguishing mark of the human being.
One of his well-known lines, "Life is an adventure in forgiveness," has survived him.
Cousins joined the University of California, Los Angeles faculty in 1978 and became an adjunct professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. He taught ethics and medical literature. His research interest was the connection between attitude and health.
Shapiro, who worked there as a college student, wrote (about her father) that, based on what the head of SR's advertising department told her, Cousins, in 30 years as editor of Saturday Review, "had never fired anyone."