The real fantasy the spy novel peddles is a dream of coherence and mastery, in which people have the power to transcend human error and the vagaries of chance and to direct the unfolding of fate itself.
Special interests can be incredible tools that lead to satisfaction and mastery in your career.
More recently, efforts have been made to define achievement levels in terms of the requirements of educational contexts or of learners' needs and their ability to function independently in particular settings (see, for example, the Threshold level developed by language specialists under the aegis of the Council of Europe in the 1970s or the Vantage and Mastery levels in the 1980s).
The $100,000 prize recognizes "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry".
The virtuosity in rhythmical composition and the mastery in the use of suggestive color would remain unsurpassed by German Expressionists.
In 1997 Hecht was awarded the Tanning Prize (which "recognizes outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry").
In 1994 he was awarded the first annual Tanning Prize from the Academy of American Poets for his "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry".
His last stroke Sunday, a backhand that sailed long, ended his 20-match winning streak at the All England Club and his mastery in the majors over Novak Djokovic, who cemented his No. 1 ranking with a 6-4, 6-1, 1-6, 6-3 victory.
The significant growth in speaking SE over the course of the year is a positive finding for language teachers, and suggests that students can make gains, if given a chance to practice language and experience mastery in the classroom.
Although the Ottoman navy was destroyed by the fleet of the Holy League at the Battle of Lepanto (1571), it was able to rebuild and regain naval mastery in the eastern Mediterranean through the rest of the 16th and most of the 17th century, taking Tunis from the Spanish Habsburgs (1574), Fez (now Fès, Morocco) from the Portuguese (1578), and Crete from Venice (1669).
