Brought up a Catholic, and influenced by Evelyn Waugh, she wrote three novels, beginning with the prize-winning Saving Agnes, which were psychologically astute and stylish black comedies.
Indeed, Cornelius's manner onstage, behind the mike, reminded one of Flannery O'Connor's astute observation that black American men are possessed of a certain formality in order to protect their emotional privacy, and dignity.
Barack Obama's timely remarks at the Democratic convention should be seen not as a generational change in African-American political leadership but as an honorable and astute move by a black elected official to align himself publicly with the black mainstream.
This is the setting for "The Cutting Season," the second novel by the impressively astute Attica Locke (after "Black Water Rising").
Although she could not even spell her name correctly when she incorporated her company ("Sarrah"), we are awed by her determination and astute use of better- educated black men and women to overcome her deficiencies.
Ask yourself why black voters are so astute, why they tend to vote in bloc?
One measure of the bleak trajectory of the last eight years is that today The Onion looks equally astute when it says of the latest transition: "Black man given nation's worst job".
Amelia Edwards takes us from the Black Country to Genoa, with an astute account of two young men whose friendship and futures are ruined by their love of the same woman.
The same goes for black films as for anything else: quality and astute branding can make all the difference.
Corice is in bright colors, Arman, unusually for Warhol, mainly in black and white, dark-eyed and bearded, looking astute and sagacious.
