My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.
My dad was an English professor.
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
My father was a doctor.
My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very interested in knowledge. He insisted that I get as much education as my brothers.
Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.
My father was a very warm, gregarious, sociable person who had many interests. He lived his life very much in the present, full of activities and the next project. He had many hobbies. He was not given to retrospection.
My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife.
My father was a journalist.
My father was a writer and an acting teacher.