Word: attained
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Although the choreographer tries to attain new combinations of gestures and movements, he is already supported by a 50-year-old tradition in modern dance. In fact, dance is now thought to be going through a classical period, in which certain "phrases," such as the contraction and release of Martha Graham or the fall to the floor of Doris Humphrey, have become rigidified, and used over and over again with little variation...
...quarrel, imbalances in the makeup of France's electoral districts would require the leftist parties to win at least 52% or 53% of the popular vote before they could gain a majority in the Assembly. But a shift in France's political demographics may help the left attain that goal. Giscard's lowering of the voting age in 1974 created the youngest French electorate in 40 years. The increase in left-leaning young voters has more than counterbalanced the rise in the number of voters over 65, who tend to be conservative. The more conservative farm...
Kilbourne examined the concept of "ideal feminine beauty," which she defined as "flawlessness--no blemishes, and, in fact, no pores." Advertisements make women feel "ashamed and guilty" because they cannot "attain that illusion," she said...
...they "interested" in being nurses and not doctors? Secretaries, not executives? The prospect of entering a field in which only a minute number of women attain success would be enough to dampen any woman's interest...
...Core Curriculum is only a poor substitute for the good advice and counseling that would direct, but not coerce students to attain a balanced education. And the Core will not solve one of Harvard's fundamental problems: the dearth of close associations between students and Faculty members. Instead, by setting the huge introductory course up as the basis of a Harvard education, the Core proposal would only widen the gulf between students and Faculty members. A Harvard education could easily be reduced to instruction by busy graduate students who are much more interested in pleasing their doctoral advisers than accommodating...