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Blind people often have highly developed powers of hearing and smell, but in Morris' case, he does not seem to have compensated for an attenuated moral sense with any other heightened abilities--not intelligence, not political savvy, and certainly not literary acumen.
In the same piece, he traces savvy to Portuguese, which might be correct, but Mencken's American Language derives it from the Spanish sabe . Professor Kaye's nuance word is, at a guess, a suggestion from a word-processor's spelling checker which was derailed by nonce word .
And Case needed a lot of help too--often company mythologies focus on one person--from the loud entrance of Ted Leonsis in 1994 to provide the spice and media savvy that Case lacked to Bob Pittman's entry in 1996, which gave AOL the world-class manager who would turn the company into a "real" one.
A long piece chronicles how a death row inmate from Arizona named Paris Carriger was exonerated with legal support from a small cadre of savvy East Coast friends.
The sartorially savvy man-about-town knows that good “English” tailoring, and the textiles used, are not only to be found on Saville Row but in the meticulous workshops of Milan, Florence, and Rome.