#1354 :) The only quote I kept track of
note the words "usually" and "poor properties" in the first sentence in your quote.
I don't have a counter quote, because I didn't keep track, I'm browsing or reading chapters in several books (skipping allmost all the theoretical parts for influence functions and so on)

From the plot it looks like HuberT and RamseyE are the only not redescending, and RamseyE is (re)descending at infinity.