In Western culture, color has always been subordinate to line.
Eisenhower figures in this account as more mature than the others, but lacking in "imagination" and in the ability, at least at first, to bring his subordinates into line.
(At the Musée d'Orsay, it's amusing to see Degas briefly trying to subordinate his crackling line to Spanish materiality and color in the 1863 portrait "Thérèse De Gas").
Consider the behavior of our close relatives, the apes: researchers have found that a head ape will instinctively display the right amount of anger to bring a subordinate ape into line.
"The worst thing you can do," Kerr said, "is turn a subordinate into a punch line".
CEOs in Swedish healthcare run their organisations through subordinate managers in a line management structure, and they do not personally manage physicians.
The CEOs do not manage physicians directly; their role is to manage managers, and they run their organisations through subordinate managers in a line management system.
About 1600 the musical revolution that began in Italy had shifted emphasis from the equal-voiced polyphony of the Renaissance and placed it instead on the concept of monody, or solo lines with subordinate accompaniments.
There are lavish rewards for those who kowtow to the ruler, but if subordinates step out of line - "Off with their heads!" Joel King Kleinis is monarch of the DOE; like hereditary monarchs from Europe's feudal past, it makes no difference that he does not have the qualifications to do the job.
When a change requires frontline employees to do their jobs differently, that information must be delivered face-to-face, first in discussions between senior managers associated with the change and frontline supervisors, and then in discussions between the supervisors and their front-line subordinates.
