His stories of teaching are a moving theme in Franklin's autobiography, "Mirror to America," from his gentle offer to tutor a fellow resident in his Cambridge boarding house who, he realizes by chance, is illiterate, to his time as a professor at Brooklyn College (where he became the first black department chair at a college that was not predominantly black), Cambridge, Duke, and elsewhere.
Its gestures are relatively simple: short, repeated, slow-moving themes — most seemed to be four evenly spaced notes — are punctuated by lightly dissonant chords and explored in soft-edged, enveloping variations.
"Oiseaux Exotiques" offers nearly the full slate of Messiaen's signature moves: themes drawn substantially from birdcalls, though filtered through Messiaen's pointed harmonic sensibilities, rhythms based on patterns found in Asian music and a pervasive sense of the mystical (if not quite the specific references to Roman Catholic theology that provide signposts in many of his other works).
Hodgman's flashbacking structure sets his story free--advances and enables it, embeds it with moving themes.
The analytical and interpretative process was conducted iteratively by three authors moving themes and sub-themes between the framework challenges until coherent response patterns emerged.
Move your theme into the opened theme folder.
The paintings move in theme from relatively earthy (the artist eating pasta, for example) to relatively cerebral, and conclude by demonstrating how his very paint surfaces and compositions alternated between these two extremes (Smith).
Seth Rolland, a woodworker who makes furniture out of reclaimed or sustainably harvested woods, is influenced, he says, by natural forms and the way they move, a theme that can be seen in his sculptural bookends.
The goal was to not runaway from what came before with a retelling, but to move the themes forward.
But McChrystal and his team do have something going for them: nicknames, signature dance moves, and theme songs.
