In 1899 astute Del. lawyers got the notion that it would be pleasant if the small state was cordial to corporations that actually did business elsewhere.
And as with every Tango Meets Jazz Festival, there was a compatible jazz interloper: in this case, Miguel Zenón, an astute young alto saxophonist with his own notions of folkloric innovation.
In retrospect the major flaw in Schoenberg's astute analysis of the crisis of tonality was the notion that pursuing an alternative had become a historical necessity.
WHATEVER else it may accomplish, "1969," the latest thematic project of the contemporary-music ensemble Alarm Will Sound, proves that you can build something substantial — a historically astute program that makes solid, provocative points — around a notion thoroughly lacking in substance.
The Spaniard has dismissed that notion of 'no Premier League experience' with his astute tactical nous, a willing set of players and the harnessing of a similar spirit to that he enjoyed when he was boss at Getafe, who comfortably survived in La Liga after their promotion 11 years ago.
But Mr. Salles, with the benefit of hindsight and an astute ability to analyze the documentary record, throws cold water on this romantic notion.
Symptomatic of the criticisms leveled at the notion of CCCs is the claim that they are merely an astute public relations exercise and there is, in fact, a wide chasm between rhetoric and reality.
Mrs. Gore has long been considered the most astute political mind in the family, a pragmatic strategist who continues to embrace the old-fashioned notion that politics can be personal.
It reveals him as, early on, an astute scavenger of the detritus of everyday life — including his own — already equipped with subversive notions of authorship, originality and the uniqueness of the art object.
This ancient notion came up in Croesus' interview with George Soros this week when he extolled his late friend Leon Levy, an astute billionaire investor, as a hedgehog who knew for sure when markets were overvalued and stuck to his guns; while he, Soros, was a fox who knew many things and was more impatient in the marketplace.
