Word: lila
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...willing to give away the idea to any publisher who would hire him as editor, but fortunately for him every one he wrote to turned him down flat. One person who encouraged him was his bride, Lila Bell Acheson, now 91, the sister of a Macalester classmate. "I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea," she later recalled. They mailed out thousands of subscription appeals just before their wedding. When they returned from their honeymoon to Greenwich Village in Manhattan there were 1,500 responses...
...Lila, the optimist of the pah", was thrilled that so many people had answered; Wallace, always the pessimist, was disappointed that so many had not. There were enough positive replies, however, to justify publication in February...
...father was also a Presbyterian minister, was his support and his prod, and her influence was almost as great as his. In the early days, he was so timid that she often had to go to meetings with him. "Wally is the genius, all right," said a friend, "but Lila unwrapped him." He himself called her his "pillar of strength," and he would often stop to praise "that incredible and wonderful woman." They entertained rarely, and their few guests were usually Digest staffers. When they dined alone, they would, in younger days, dance for 15 minutes after dinner...
Tell Me a Riddle is the story of David and Eva (Melvyn Douglas and Lila Kedrova)--two contrasting personalities living alone together. Their kids are married off and their house feels large. David, retired union organizer, is outgoing and affable. Eva, on the other hand, is introverted--slightly deaf, she is able to turn off the world by turning off her hearing aid. But she cannot extinguish a constant stream of disturbing flashbacks that remind her of years spent in Nazi concentration camps. Together, the husband and wife quarrel about selling the house. He sees it as a pragmatic move...
...taken on a farewell visit to children and grandchildren, reaching a final resting place in the San Francisco pad of a hippy granddaughter. Eva finds in the girl an echo of her own past, and she makes some inarticulate efforts to pass on her heritage. But as played by Lila Kedrova, the old woman mostly seems merely gaga. It is sometimes hard to determine whether her grimaces are meant to convey joy or pain or simply the frustration of an actress trying to find a part that no one quite bothered to write out for her. The doughty trouper Melvyn...