Word: lila
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LILA by Robert M. Pirsig; Bantam; 409 pages...
Phaedrus is back in Lila, Pirsig's second book, this time alone on a boat, wending his way leisurely down a water path that originated in Lake Superior and may bring him to Florida or even Mexico. He had hoped that all this free, undisturbed time would allow him to sort through the thousands of note cards he has assembled for his next book, tentatively titled Metaphysics of Quality or Metaphysics of Value. And this book, as Phaedrus describes it, sounds interesting: an attempt to find some middle path between scientists and mystics, between those who swear by facts alone...
...Clare Boothe Brokaw sat at Henry R. Luce's right, but they scarcely talked, and he left early; she thought him fascinating but incredibly rude. Two months later, at a Waldorf-Astoria party honoring Cole Porter, it was a different story. Oblivious to other guests, including his then spouse Lila, Luce sat with Brokaw at a corner table and conversed intently until 4 a.m. In the hotel lobby, he blurted out, "How does it feel to be told that you are the one woman, the only woman, in a man's life?" "Whose life?" she asked. "Mine," he answered...
...think we played really well on top of the fact that their defense wasn't that good," Co-Captain Lila Rifaat said...
...Basically, we were expecting them to be tougher than they were," Co-Captain Lila Rifaat said. "We played down to their level, especially in the first half, and it was a sluggish game...