Even a Vietnam War hero from the Northeast came across as too steeped in intellectualism and internationalism to understand military families. |
One possible explanation relates to differing attitudes between the two cultures regarding intellectualism and scholarship. |
There is a hole at the core of his personality, and his florid prose and arid intellectualism has, for too long, prevented us from admitting it. |
But he did not go in for intellectualism, he developed an emotional approach to classical music, appealing to the common man. |
His restless intellectualism curiously mirrors the expansive lives of the nomads and Australian cowboys he so much admires. |
That intellectualism eventually gave way to a certain kind of even less-compelling placidness. |