Rodney Robinson, his mother's brother, recalls Landis as "very studious, an intellectual — a lot of reading, not a real physical kid".
My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue.
As he matured, he developed into a genuinely intellectual man: inquisitive, studious, a man who loved learning.
I was studious, serious, and rational to the core.
Elizabeth Hardwick, the critic, essayist, fiction writer and co-founder of The New York Review of Books, who went from being a studious Southern Belle to a glittering member of the New York City intellectual elite, died Sunday night in Manhattan.
The couple were classmates at the Polytechnic School in Pasadena, where Dr. Nevins, shy and studious, could not help noticing that Ms. Morse was an attractive, intellectual blonde.
So, should we assume Elena Ferrante has led a life parallel to that of Lenu, the studious, hardworking narrator who rises to the status of a public intellectual who'd be prolific on Twitter, or a life more like Lila's -- one devoted to observation, to honesty, to telling heartfelt stories?
As a studious man of immigrant background with the kind of credentials admired by coastal intellectual meritocrats -- Brown, Oxford and McKinsey & Company -- the Republican governor, at least on paper, has a chance to appeal to the middle, should he run for president in 2016.
Balanced 7 energy: metaphysical interests, different wavelength, intellectual, clairvoyant, analytical, perceptive, scientific, exact, meditative, mystical, expert, bookish, poised, telepathic, visionary, deep, dreamer, instinctive, reflective, truth-seeker, studious, wise.
Elizabeth Hardwick, who as a studious Kentucky belle set her ambitions on becoming a member of New York's glittering intellectual elite and then achieved them, as a critic, essayist, fiction writer and a co-founder of The New York Review of Books, died on Sunday in Manhattan.
One of them, the refined and cynical intellectual Bertram Flusser, insists on playing records of Beethoven loud and late, which annoys the studious and overtaxed Marcus, who finally pulls Bertram's record of the quartet off the turntable and dashes it against the wall.
