The ability of Americans to ...

The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history.
 Norman Corwin

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The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could not do both, Lincoln fears that very few can actually think and speak at the same time.
 Norman Corwin
There's no set designer like your own self; you furnish the mise-en-scène, the wardrobe, the physical proportions of the actor, and the setting. Then radio is doing something that television very rarely achieves.
 Norman Corwin