Volume 29, Number 11 · June 24, 1982
Sparkle Plenty
By Alan Pryce-Jones
Geoffrey Madan's Notebooks: A Selection
edited by J.A. Gere, edited by John Sparrow, with a foreword by Harold Macmillan
Oxford University Press, 136 pp., $17.95
It is many years now since British society brought off one of its greatest accomplishments: the effortless ability to dazzle. Effortless this may have been, but it did need one or two things not nowadays easy to come by, such as confidence, a little surplus of money (or, better still, a large one), and a congenial fishpond for breeding and exercise.
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