His latest release features monumental works by both of those composers, alongside one of the great achievements of late 20th-century piano music, and this is, if anything, an even more demanding and nervelessly accomplished collection.
Evident though the achievements of late antiquity and the early middle ages are, it is also clear that they constitute a fire-break without parallel in European history.
He also blogs over at Diary of a Crossword Fiend, but one of his biggest achievements of late is the fact that he has recently graduated from veterinary school and is now employed as a veterinarian near Johannesburg.
In other words, there haven't been too many foreign policy achievements of late, certainly not where substantial U.S. resources were committed, like Iraq and Afghanistan.
On the road to great achievement, the late bloomer will resemble a failure: while the late bloomer is revising and despairing and changing course and slashing canvases to ribbons after months or years, what he or she produces will look like the kind of thing produced by the artist who will never bloom at all.
One Chicago neighbourhood leader recalls that 30 years ago his main challenges were cracking down on slum landlords, massage parlours and street gangs.Despite this, even mayors with forceful local records, such as Rudy Giuliani in New York, have had trouble in reminding the locals of those achievements (his latest crime: spraying for mosquitoes).
He said he had no time to savor the achievement, the latest in a list of them.
The achievements of the late writer David Foster Wallace resounded well beyond the literary world.
But there appears to be a coordinated campaign to undo many of the achievements of the late 90s.
This would give the GOP the ability to erase the achievements of the late Obama administration, and they're likely to target environmental regulations in particular.
