Nineteen Forties

2019 ◽  
pp. 45-78
Author(s):  
Ricardo Trimillos ◽  
Stephen Blum ◽  
John Baily ◽  
Philip Yampolsky ◽  
Barbara Benary ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteen Forties

Patrick Kavanagh and the Authentic ‘Dispensation’: Rereading the Role of Narrator in The Great Hunger

2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Kilcoyne
Keyword(s):  
National Literature ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Peasant Farmer ◽  
Nineteen Forties ◽  
Death Knell

This essay posits a challenge to the continued reading of The Great Hunger (1942) as a realist depiction of the Irish small-farming class in the nineteen forties. The widespread critical acceptance of the poem as a socio-historical ‘documentary’ both relies upon and propagates an outmoded notion of authenticity based upon the implicit fallacy that Kavanagh's body of work designates a quintessence of Irishness in contradistinction to his Revivalist predecessors. In 1959 Kavanagh referred to this delusion as constituting his ‘dispensation’, for indeed it did provide a poetic niche for the young poet. Kavanagh's acknowledgement of this dispensation came with his rejection of all prescriptive literary symbols. While this iconoclasm is widely recognised in his later career, the relevance of The Great Hunger to this question continues to be overlooked. In fact, this poem contains his strongest dialectic upon the use of symbols – such as the peasant farmer – in designating an authentic national literature. The close reading of The Great Hunger offered here explores the poem's central deconstruction of ruralism and authenticity. The final ‘apocalypse of clay’ is the poem's collapse under the stress of its own deconstructed symbolism; the final scream sounds the death knell to Kavanagh's adherence to his authentic dispensation.

STRANGE NEW DIAGNOSTIC PROBLEM FOR THE MODERN PEDIATRICIAN

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-6
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Problem ◽  
Nineteen Forties ◽  
Rip Van Winkle ◽  
A Current ◽  
Current Journal

Were a Rip van Winkle of the pediatric profession to have fallen asleep in 1950 one hopes that soon after awakening 20 years later, he would have called for a current journal of his specialty. Had chance presented him with this one, what would he have thought? The preceding Commentary on rheumatic fever1 would have been vastly reassuring. Here is something Dr. Rip van Winkle, F.A.A.P., would obviously have understood. With much of it, indeed, he would have been so familiar that he might wonder if he hadn't had just a little nap. And he would promise himself, exactly as he used to back in the nineteen forties, that next year he'd certainly do throat cultures for streptococci in his office.

therefore be on the fourth SCR or on the serine/theonine rich region. By sequencing genomic DNA from Cr(a-) people, Telen and colleagues showed that a mutation in the fourth SCR was responsible for Cr3 [13]. Considering the MAIEA results, the fourth SCR would be a good place to start looking for difference responsible for the WES polymorphism too. Other Cromer system antigens showed some inhibition with one of the BRIC antibodies [12]. MAIEA provided biochemical evidence that Esa is indeed a Cromer system antigen [12]. Esa was thought to be a Cromer related antigen because of the failure of anti-Esa to react with Cromer-null cells and from its behaviour with proteinaese treated cells [14]. These findings were supported by the observation that Esa was carried by a glycosyl phosphatidylinositol linked protein [15]. However, only a small amount of anti-Esa was available and,therefore, immunoblotting experiments could not be done. Strong positive results with BRIC 216 and 110 but a negative result with BRIC 230 suggested that Esa is located on DAF, possibly on the first SCR. Similarly, a negative result with BRIC 230 and Tca suggests that it too is on the first SCR (Table II) [12]. The results of the MAIEA tests for Cromer antigens are summarised in Table II. They agree with those known from DNA studies, Dra on SCR III [15,16,17] and Cr3 on SCR IV [13], and suggest the best places to look for those as yet undetermined. This demonstrates how MAIEA may be used to help narrow the field of study to determine the molecular basis of antigens. VARIATION IN EXPRESSION OF SOME Rh ANTIGENS We had hoped to apply MAIEA to Rh but to date the only antibodies to the D protein are of human origin, so MAIEA cannot yet be used to study the relationship of the D antigen to some of the low incidence antigens which appear to be markers of partial D antigens. The Rh antigen D is, after ABO, the most important antigen clinically because it is highly immunogenic. Until the introduction of Rh immunoprophylaxis, anti-D was the most frequent cause of haemolytic disease of the newborn and neonatal death [1]. Many Rh antigens are good immunogens. Since its initial recognition in the nineteen-forties, the Rh system has become very complex. There are 48 numbered antigens, that is serologically defined determinants, the numbers have reached 50 because two numbers have been declared obsolete [2,3,18,19]. Some antigens are polymorphic and others are of high or low incidence.

1995 ◽  
pp. 191-191
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Basis ◽  
Neonatal Death ◽  
Haemolytic Disease ◽  
Glycosyl Phosphatidylinositol ◽  
Nineteen Forties ◽  
Low Incidence ◽  
D Antigen ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Results

scholarly journals Twenty-Five and Thirty-Five Year Follow up of First Admissions to Mental Hospital

1968 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. N. Beck
Keyword(s):  
Prince Edward Island ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Nineteen Thirties ◽  
Needed Information ◽  
Nineteen Forties ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Very High

This has been a report of a study designed to assess the feasibility of long-term follow-up studies on Prince Edward Island. Cohorts of patients first admitted to the Island's only mental hospital during the early nineteen-thirties and early nineteen-forties were followed in retrospect in order to determine, a) the course and outcome of the major disorders over periods ranging up to thirty-five years and, b) the long-term effects of these disorders upon the families of the patients. Needed information was gathered through a review of hospital records, a search for death records and community interviews. The results of the study suggest that lifetime prognosis in the absence of modern treatment methods may be even worse than believed by most professionals working in the field. As might be expected the outlook was found to be particularly grave for schizophrenia. Success in following up a very high proportion of the cases over several decades supports the belief that Prince Edward Island offers unusual opportunities for studies of this kind.

Grandparents and Their Families: A Guide for Three Generations

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-37
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Curve ◽  
Baby Boom ◽  
Nineteen Nineties ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Nineteen Forties ◽  
To Come

It is a surprising thought that the Baby Boom of the nineteen forties, now stretching the colleges in the sixties, will confront society one last time in the nineteen nineties as the great Grandparents Explosion (it may even reappear still later as the great Great Grandparent Boom of the 2020's, but perhaps by then the distribution curve will have spread to imperceptibility). Whether or not grandparents become more of a problem than they (we) are now, few of them are likely to come to the pediatrician for advice on how to behave.

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