Reviews were divided by the following themes: prevalence, progression, course, biological associations, risk factors, care, quality of life and disease outcome.
This theme of steady progression has continued over the summer months.
Except that I initially thought this would be a vowel progression theme, since I first got LATIN PERCUSSION and then LEOPARD PRINT.
I'll let Mr. Boisvert explain: "Back when Jim Horne was blogging, he mentioned in an aside: 'I wonder who will be the first to fit six [vowel progression theme entries] with a 'sometimes Y' at the end.' Well, that was all I needed; I ran a quick perl script to find some possibilities, chose what I considered to be the best one, and wrote the puzzle the next day.
The first thematic progression pattern, Theme reiteration (or constant Theme) pattern, reiterates or maintains the Theme focus rather than developing it.
The AEIOU vowel-progression theme is somewhat shopworn by now, but I thought the doubling made it fresh enough to build a puzzle around.
TUESDAY'S PUZZLE — Today, I think it's most fitting to start the post with a quote from puzzle editor Will Shortz: Some time ago one of the crossword bloggers (I won't say which one, but her initials are D.A). declared that if she ever saw another vowel-progression theme again, she'd poke her eyes out.
Four main themes around disease progression were identified.
Bach's Goldberg Variations depend on games of symmetry to create the progression from theme to variation.
The track "Leader of the Pack" references the Shangri-Las hit about a motorcycle crash in its chord progression and theme, with the lyrics "Don't you know he's never coming back again?" "Born to Lose" imagines suicide.
