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| | TIME.com: Wicked Tongues -- Jan. 31, 1983 -- Page 1 |
 | | "None of the poet's associates appears to have known her well," Quennell observes, noting that Bertrand Russell "alleged once to have seduced her," then told a friend that she was, after all, "not so badlight, a little vulgar, adventurous, full of life." Aldous Huxley echoed the endorsement, whereas Sacheverell Sitwell denied that she was vulgar. |
 | | When are you pushing off?" Quennell writes affectionately of Artist Augustus John, with his gypsy ways and tribe of illegitimate children; John was immensely popular in his heyday, yet "had nothing of the fatuous outward bloom, the glossy patina of self-approval, that goes frequently with public fame." |
 | | Describing a colorful long-ago friend, Quennell almost casually defines a "character": "He was 'somebody,' a redoubtable human phenomenon, never totally silenced or permanently dismayed." The definition fits most of the people in Quennell's memoir, not least the author himself. |
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