At parents' evenings, this teacher was brightly hopeful about Ruby, who sat stolidly somewhere in the middle of her attainment targets.
During the first few minutes of each telephone counseling call, the researcher asked a woman how many steps she had accumulated each day over the previous week, then provided her with supportive feedback regarding attainment of her physical activity.
The "stag's leap" of the title of the collection refers to Olds's husband's leap for freedom – but also, perhaps, her own gradual attainment of a new equilibrium.
Kitty was an ebullient presence who danced through life as if in a dream, helping those who needed help and admiring the abilities and achievements of those who fell far short of her attainments, always with her sparkling, inquisitive eyes finding in life nothing but endless far horizons.
She regarded it as quite natural that a person of her attainments … should … have reached so garish a position".
The role of sorting out her financial affairs fell to her friend, Pat Arthy, who discovered that despite her emphasis on the magical attainment of material wealth, she owned no property and that her estate was worth less than £10,000.
But it is her very late beginning and rapid attainment of virtuosity that are arguably without precedent for a female ballerina.
For all the new show's references to her years of excess, Ms. Stritch's attainment of sobriety, the organizing theme of "At Liberty," is only a sidebar in "At Home at the Carlyle".
These are most importantly (self-reported) ethnicity, but also a number of covariates that are intended to reflect other aspects of the respondent's background, namely whether she grew up in an urban or rural region, whether she lived with both parents at age 15, her number of siblings, her own educational attainment, and the educational attainments of her mother and father.
Others stress the attainment of mystical awareness.
