He proved to be a shrewd observer and rapid learner, publishing his first academic paper – on the unlikely subject of migrant seabirds in the Basel region – at the age of 18 in 1941.
The children's book, the latest in the wildly popular series by J. K. Rowling, is already a publishing phenomenon, fueled by a shrewd marketing campaign by Scholastic.
"After repeated failures to clear Cairo's city centre of street vendors … the Cairo governorate issued a shrewd decree," wrote Abdelrahman, in an article she published last year.
In the publishing world, Willis was known as a shrewd magazinist and an innovator who focused on appealing to readers' special interests while still recognizing new talent.
(A shrewd editor did me a favor by declining to publish the piece).
He mastered what had been published already, combined this with his own shrewd and elegant judgment and added just a pinch of his personal experience in politics.
A more cynical agent might call it a shrewd move, a me-too book that capitalizes on a publishing fad for so-called addiction memoirs.
The book, which Temple University Press will publish in May, reflects the shirt; it is shrewd, entertaining, passionate, hopeful, and a good fit for people who are "hungry to escape the racial boxes we've been trapped in".
Published in 1940, it turned out to be a shrewd, concise, wonderfully written account of America in the '30s.
Some things will let go of you.... Time's one of those things," warns Lavone, the druggy clerk who helps Rudy publish his paper, and who will emerge as a shrewd steersman when Qangattarsa founders.
