The Great Gatsby: Glamor on the Turn

1982 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Godden
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
Family Tradition ◽  
Epic Theatre ◽  
Middle West ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University

“I'll tell you God's truth.” His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by. “I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West — all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford, because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition.”He looked at me sideways — and I knew why Jordan Baker had believed he was lying. He hurried the phrase “educated at Oxford,” or swallowed it, or choked on it, as though it had bothered him before. And with this doubt, his whole statement fell to pieces, and I wondered if there wasn't something a little sinister about him, after all.“What part of the Middle West? ” I inquired casually.“San Francisco.”“I see.”“My family all died and I came into a good deal of money.”His voice was solemn, as if the memory of that sudden extinction of a clan still haunted him. For a moment I suspected that he was pulling my leg, but a glance at him convinced me otherwise.Does Gatsby know where San Francisco is? If he does, his response is an odd gesture. “Epic theatre is gestural,” wrote Walter Benjamin of Brecht. Gatsby, too, is gestural: as Nick Carraway would have it, “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him” (p. 2). Except that Gatsby's gestures are broken, and by Gatsby himself. To “tell … God's truth” he raises his right hand — isn't that taking the truth a little too seriously? When speaking of loss he pauses in the right place; indeed, in a place so right that the addendum “all dead now” might just be bad acting, not lying. The creator of a criminal network operating Richard Godden is Lecturer in American Studies in the Department of American Studies at the University of Keele, Keele, Staffs. ST5 5BG, England.

Carpenter Syndrome – Case Report and Treatment

2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-103
Author(s):  
Vladimir Mirchevski ◽  
Elizabeta Zogovska ◽  
Aleksandar Chaparoski ◽  
Venko Filipce ◽  
Ljuljzim Agai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Surgical Procedure ◽  
Heart Diseases ◽  
Psychomotor Development ◽  
Operating Table ◽  
Pediatric Clinic ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
Carpenter Syndrome ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University

Abstract Introduction. Carpenter syndrome is a polymorphic disorder transmitted by autosomal recessive inheritance, caused by mutations in the RAB23 gene [1]. These genetic disorders are reflected on the biogenesis of intracranial structures. This syndrome was described for the first time in 1900 by the British doctor George Carpenter. It may include congenital heart diseases, mental retardation, hypogonadism, obesity, umbilical hernia, developmental disorder, bone anomalies and frequent respiratory infections. Carpenter syndrome has two main features: craniosynostosis and more than five fingers or toes [2-4]. Aim. To present our experience in treatment of an infant with Carpenter syndrome including trigonocephaly and polydactyly. Case report. In May 2003, an eleven-month-old male infant with Carpenter syndrome was hospitalized in the Pediatric Department of the University Clinic of Neurosurgery in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. The infant was referred to our Department from the University Pediatric Clinic because of trigonocephaly and polydactyly with two thumbs on his right hand. The infant had already been twice hospitalized at the University Pediatric Clinic for two recurrent lung infections suggestive of Carpenter syndrome. The diagnosis of trigonocephaly and polydactyly with two thumbs on the right hand was made by physical examination, X-ray of the right infant’s hand and computed tomography of the head. According to Oi and Matsumoto classification from 1986 [5], the infant had a severe form of trigonocephaly. Surgical procedure. Under general endotracheal anesthesia, the infant was placed supine on the operating table, a bifrontal skin incision was made and the scalp flap was created. The bifrontal craniotomy was realized into one bony piece succeeded by a modified Di Rocco’s "shell" procedure including frontal translation and transposition rotating the flap for 180 degrees without /touching the orbital rims. Results. The postoperative period was uneventful except for the expected forehead swelling. The infant was discharged from the hospital on the 7th postoperative day, neurologically intact. Three months after surgery, the head had excellent esthetic appearance, with regular psychomotor development in line with the age of the patient. Six months after the first surgery the patient underwent a second plastic and reconstructive surgery in order to reduce the number of fingers. Conclusion. The early recognition and multidisciplinary approach could prevent new disabled individuals in the society. Our technique shortens the entire surgical procedure, diminishes the time under anesthesia and its complications, especially in departments where blood saving devices are not available.

scholarly journals Errata

1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 590-590
Keyword(s):  
Michigan State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Alphabetical Order ◽  
Japanese Occupation ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
Hand Column ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
Production Error ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University

The Journal's November 1998 issue (57.4:1223) incorrectly identified Paul H. Kratoska's book as Malaya and Singapore During the Chinese Occupation. It should have been cited as Malaya and Singapore During the Japanese Occupation.Due to a production error in the Journal's February 1999 issue (58.1:78–80), the glossary in Joanna F. Handlin Smith's article on “Liberating Animals in Ming-Qing China” lost its original alphabetical order. Thus, Guangci bian is positioned after Chen Di on p. 78; renxing follows “Guang fangsheng hui yin” midway down the first column of p. 79; “Jiesha fangsheng he lun bing wu jue” begins the right hand column on p. 79 and follows Shunzhi at the bottom of the left hand column of that same page; Song Jingwen starts out the first column on p. 80 and follows yinde, the last entry on p. 79, which should have preceded yinguo, the first entry on the right hand column of p. 80.The Journal's February 1999 issue (58.1:269) carried an error. Gregory A. Olsen's book Mansfield and Vietnam: A Study in Rhetorical Adaptation was published by Michigan State University Press not the University of Michigan Press.

Location, Positionality, and Community

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoko Tsukuda
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
State University ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Issues surrounding the differences between U.S.-based and Japan-based Japanese American studies have been important to me as a person who has pursued degrees at graduate schools in both countries. I first became interested in the history of Japanese Americans in my junior year of college when a visiting white professor from Seattle told me the story of how her father helped his Japanese American friends during World War II. Because I was unaware of what the “camps” meant, I was shocked to learn about the internment experience of Japanese Americans. After writing my senior thesis based on a month of fieldwork in Los Angeles’s Japanese American community, I enrolled in an ethnic studies master’s course at San Francisco State University. Later, I returned to Japan and completed an American studies PhD in the Area Studies Department at the University of Tokyo. Presently, I teach at a Japanese university. My experiences in both the United States and Japan have often led me to questions surrounding my positionality as a Japan-based scholar who engages in Japanese American studies....

Aeolus Figured on Colic Amulets

1942 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-93
Author(s):  
Campbell Bonner
Keyword(s):  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Classical Archaeology ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
Small Collection ◽  
Original Size ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
Oval Shape

The Museum of Classical Archaeology at the University of Michigan has recently acquired a small collection of engraved stones, with a few metal objects; most of them are amulets of the kind conventionally called gnostic — a description which, as is now recognized, is usually misleading. The collection was assembled in the Levant, chiefly in Syria. One of the stones, the occasion of this note, is now a mere fragment, probably a little more than half its original size. It is a piece of haematite, 27 mm. high, 10 mm. wide, and 5 mm. in thickness. When entire it was rectangular, as is shown by the fact that a borderdesign, a sort of feather pattern, is preserved at the top and right side, and makes a right angle at the upper right-hand corner. After the left side of the stone was broken away the remaining fragment was rounded off at the bottom, perhaps to remove a rough edge and make the piece into a more convenient shape. The fact that the fragment was preserved and re-shaped is not without interest as showing how tenaciously their possessors clung to amulets of this kind. Something of the same sort happened to a rather elaborately carved haematite which came into my own collection from Egypt. It was originally a fairly broad oval, but at some time a splinter was broken off the right side, after which loss the rough edge was ground down and an approximately oval shape restored. In the University's collection there is still another haematite which, after a part of the stone had been lost, was set in a protecting mounting fitted to its altered shape. All collectors, of course, are aware that haematite is peculiarly liable to splintering fracture.

Low temperature x-ray microanalysis of frozen-hydrated tobacco leaves

1984 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 284-285
Author(s):  
S. Edith Taylor ◽  
Patrick Echlin ◽  
May McKoon ◽  
Thomas L. Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Lemna Minor ◽  
Root Tips ◽  
Tobacco Leaves ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Whole Cells ◽  
Carbon Coated ◽  
The Right ◽  
Beam Currents ◽  
The University

Low temperature x-ray microanalysis (LTXM) of solid biological materials has been documented for Lemna minor L. root tips. This discussion will be limited to a demonstration of LTXM for measuring relative elemental distributions of P,S,Cl and K species within whole cells of tobacco leaves.Mature Wisconsin-38 tobacco was grown in the greenhouse at the University of California, Berkeley and picked daily from the mid-stalk position (leaf #9). The tissue was excised from the right of the mid rib and rapidly frozen in liquid nitrogen slush. It was then placed into an Amray biochamber and maintained at 103K. Fracture faces of the tissue were prepared and carbon-coated in the biochamber. The prepared sample was transferred from the biochamber to the Amray 1000A SEM equipped with a cold stage to maintain low temperatures at 103K. Analyses were performed using a tungsten source with accelerating voltages of 17.5 to 20 KV and beam currents from 1-2nA.

Editorial Note

1946 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-2
Keyword(s):  
Editorial Note ◽  
Speech Sounds ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
Hand Column ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
Infant Speech ◽  
The Right

In the article “Infant Speech Sounds and Intelligence” by Orvis C. Irwin and Han Piao Chen, in the December 1945 issue of the Journal, the paragraph which begins at the bottom of the left hand column on page 295 should have been placed immediately below the first paragraph at the top of the right hand column on page 296. To the authors we express our sincere apologies.

Eosinophilic vasculitis: an inhabitual and resistant manifestation of a vasculitis

VASA ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 344-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jandus ◽  
Bianda ◽  
Alerci ◽  
Gallino ◽  
Marone
Keyword(s):  
Skin Biopsy ◽  
Intravenous Iron ◽  
Small Vessel Vasculitis ◽  
High Dose ◽  
Raynaud Phenomenon ◽  
The Third ◽  
Left Elbow ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
The Right ◽  
Trunk Skin

A 55-year-old woman was referred because of diffuse pruritic erythematous lesions and an ischemic process of the third finger of her right hand. She was known to have anaemia secondary to hypermenorrhea. She presented six months before admission with a cutaneous infiltration on the left cubital cavity after a paravenous leakage of intravenous iron substitution. She then reported a progressive pruritic erythematous swelling of her left arm and lower extremities and trunk. Skin biopsy of a lesion on the right leg revealed a fibrillar, small-vessel vasculitis containing many eosinophils.Two months later she reported Raynaud symptoms in both hands, with a persistent violaceous coloration of the skin and cold sensation of her third digit of the right hand. A round 1.5 cm well-delimited swelling on the medial site of the left elbow was noted. The third digit of her right hand was cold and of violet colour. Eosinophilia (19 % of total leucocytes) was present. Doppler-duplex arterial examination of the upper extremities showed an occlusion of the cubital artery down to the palmar arcade on the right arm. Selective angiography of the right subclavian and brachial arteries showed diffuse alteration of the blood flow in the cubital artery and hand, with fine collateral circulation in the carpal region. Neither secondary causes of hypereosinophilia nor a myeloproliferative process was found. Considering the skin biopsy results and having excluded other causes of eosinophilia, we assumed the diagnosis of an eosinophilic vasculitis. Treatment with tacrolimus and high dose steroids was started, the latter tapered within 12 months and then stopped, but a dramatic flare-up of the vasculitis with Raynaud phenomenon occurred. A new immunosupressive approach with steroids and methotrexate was then introduced. This case of aggressive eosinophilic vasculitis is difficult to classify into the usual forms of vasculitis and constitutes a therapeutic challenge given the resistance to current immunosuppressive regimens.

Working at the Crossroads: A Guide for Border Crossing

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Mckiernan-González
Keyword(s):  
American Studies ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Keynote Address ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Academic Labor ◽  
Boyle Heights ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This article discusses the impact of George J. Sánchez’s keynote address “Working at the Crossroads” in making collaborative cross-border projects more academically legitimate in American studies and associated disciplines. The keynote and his ongoing administrative labor model the power of public collaborative work to shift research narratives. “Working at the Crossroads” demonstrated how historians can be involved—as historians—in a variety of social movements, and pointed to the ways these interactions can, and maybe should, shape research trajectories. It provided a key blueprint and key examples for doing historically informed Latina/o studies scholarship with people working outside the university. Judging by the success of Sánchez’s work with Boyle Heights and East LA, projects need to establish multiple entry points, reward participants at all levels, and connect people across generations.I then discuss how I sought to emulate George Sánchez’s proposals in my own work through partnering with labor organizations, developing biographical public art projects with students, and archiving social and cultural histories. His keynote address made a back-and-forth movement between home communities and academic labor seem easy and professionally rewarding as well as politically necessary, especially in public universities. 

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