Word: well-read
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Mamet said in his remarks that Henrietta succeeds because she is "persistent, compassionate and well-read," qualities the Pulitzer-Prize winner attributed to Clinton as well...
...didn't realize what the topic of the discussion was going to be," said Grace E. Fu '03. "But it was very interesting to hear her relate so many different things. She's very well-read...
...intellectual appeal results from a feeling of alienation which elevates our existentialist sensitivities. During our leisurely strolls to and from the Yard, our minds ponder how these sentiments were expressed by European literary geniuses from Unamuno to Malraux. Which brings me to my next point: Quadlings are undeniably well-read. But really, how could any Quad resident resist frequenting the Hilles scene, its penthouse teaming with well-suited recruiters and sultry social studies concentrators...
...population of New York City is 7 million--that is, absent the horde of literary characters who hover in odd corners of museums, frolic in the parks, stroll ordinary streets and make the city a warm and friendly place for a well-read youngster. "Seeing real places that are associated with books makes stories come alive," says Judy Zuckerman, a children's-books specialist at the New York Public Library, "and visiting something kids have read about adds a personal dimension to a trip...
...unlike Elvis, Wilde was one of his era's foremost men of letters, inordinately well-read and a master of irony. He was also a man of notoriously reckless appetites--for young men, fine things and controversy...