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Thus did Andrew Berding, U.S. State Department briefing officer, thumbnail last week the immobility and futility of the Big Four sessions at Geneva. Secretary of State Christian Herter confided to aides that he felt "degraded" by having to sit and listen to Andrei Gromyko's laboriously unyielding speeches. At last came the point when, over coffee in the U.S. villa, Herter told Gromyko that he was leaving Geneva in a week-to attend a meeting of the Organization of American States in Santiago, Chile-come what might...
...been my pleasure to have known the late Frank Lloyd Wright for the last few years. As a result, I feel impelled to offer my congratulations for the sensitive yet succinct sketch you offered to this individual's memory [April 20]. It was indeed an ideal thumbnail sketch of the high points of this native genius' life and times...
Alphabetical Nostrums. Middle-aged readers may feel a touch of the old nostalgia as the AAA, TVA, NRA and all the other alphabetical nostrums pass in review. As Schlesinger moves from agency to agency, he frequently comes through with accurate and telling thumbnail sketches of the crowd around F.D.R. There is Henry Wallace ("At a certain point, his mind seemed almost to break through a sonic barrier . . . into rhapsodic mysticism"), who could speculate whether the reverse side of the U.S. Great Seal, with its all-seeing eye. did not prefigure the Second Coming of the Messiah. There is erratic, hard...
...that Comrade Khrushchev said in his report about the antiparty group and about me is true." They had "criminally" opposed, delayed and impeded a farm program of "genius." Bulganin gave devastating little thumbnail sketches of his colleagues disgraced and banished-Molotov, "isolated from life and from the Soviet people, knowing nothing of industry and agriculture"; Kaganovich. "a phrasemaker who interfered with party work with his long, involved speeches"; Malenkov, "an intriguer capable of all vileness...
...butts, betting their Sunday bacon on whether the quare fellow will hang, greedily rushing the guard carrying the quare fellow's last dinner, fighting in the quare fellow's grave over his salable last letters. As a large-scale muralist, Behan lacks concentration and power; as a thumbnail etcher, he is at his vividest first-rate...