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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof : A Revised American Myth
Thornton, Songok Han,Thornton, William H. 충남대학교 미국학연구소 1991 美國學論文集 Vol.11 No.-
The success of Tennessee Williams as a playwrite came with the postwar era, coinciding exactly with America's full transition to global power and to a social structure based not only on industrial values, but increasingly on suburban, white -collar values. Looking back on this transition, it is hard to recapture the newness of it all, or the guilt in the American mind at having thrown away so much of the Puritan heritage. Events of the McCarthy era illustrate that the Americans of this time were not at ease with themselves. They needed reassurance from their politicians and writers that deep down their success came from their real character, not from greed or graft. They needed, in short, a myth to support their new affluence. At first sight Tennessee Williams would seem a poor candidate for this mythic assignment. His writing was too critical when it came to the materialism of the era. His sympathies were too fixed on the victims of change, such as Blanche Du Bois of A Streetcar Named Desire. In looking at the pain of transition, however, Williams faced what many felt but did not admit. He was conservative in his cultural sympathies, yet he was also a realist. Part of his message was that we cannot turn back the clock, as Brick attempted in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. As this study will show, Williams's social message is much more optimistic than has often been realized. If, for example, we compare the values of Brick with those of Willy Loman in Miller's Death of a Salesman, we see that happiness is impossible for Loman, while for Brick it is simply a matter of overcoming his youthful obstenance. Time is on Brick's side. Meanwhile Big Daddy offers Brick an alternate model of conduct, and even of courage, in his lecture on the manly art of compromise. Brick, if he will take them, has options that are both profitable and socially respectable. Brick's wife, Maggie, unlike Loman's son Biff, is on the side of full compromise. This does not deny her challenge to the ethics of the times, which is part of Williams' most severe social criticism; but the criticism is blunted by the fact that Maggie is attacking the ethics of former times as well. She believes that most "moral" values are a sham in any age. Only the rich, she contends, can afford the luxury of such pretentions. She herself is a social climber, not a social reformer. The one value she stands by is the honesty to see this sham for what it is. Then, like Big Daddy, she compromises herself without shame.
Context dependency of Set1/COMPASS-mediated histone H3 Lys4 trimethylation
Thornton, Janet L.,Westfield, Gerwin H.,Takahashi, Yoh-hei,Cook, Malcolm,Gao, Xin,Woodfin, Ashley R.,Lee, Jung-Shin,Morgan, Marc A.,Jackson, Jessica,Smith, Edwin R.,Couture, Jean-Francois,Skiniotis, G Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2014 Genes & development Vol.28 No.2
<P>The stimulation of H3K4 trimethylation (H3K4me3) by H2B monoubiquitination (H2Bub) has been widely studied, and multiple mechanisms have been proposed for this form of histone cross-talk. Thornton et al. combine biochemical, structural, and in vivo approaches to provide a novel mechanism for the role of H2B ubiquitination machinery in the regulation of histone H3K4 methylation by COMPASS. This study demonstrates that the H2Bub machinery and Cps35/Swd2 function to focus the H3K4me3 activity of COMPASS at promoter-proximal regions in a context-dependent manner.</P>
THE COST OF CAPITAL AND THE MULTI - NATIONALIZATION OF JAPANESE BANKING
THORNTON, JOHN 한국국제경제학회 1992 International Economic Journal Vol.6 No.4
This study tests the hypothesis that a bank's cost of capital, proxied by the dividend yield on its own stock, is an important factor in the expansion of its overseas activities. The results support the hypothesis. Additional factors identified as important are the growth of Japanese direct foreign investment, which proxies the expansion overseas of Japanese banks' domestic customers, the yen exchange rate, and the deregulation of Japanese financial markets with the consequent increase in the permissible activities of Japanese banks abroad.
THE DETERMINANTS OF THE SPREAD IN THE BLACK MARKET FOR DOLLARS IN COSTA RICA
THORNTON, JOHN 한국국제경제학회 1993 International Economic Journal Vol.7 No.4
This note presents results from a time series study of a version of the theory of the bid-ask spread in the context of the Costa Rican black market for dollars using monthly averages of daily data over the period January 1988 to September 1991. The theory is tested by regressing the monthly average of daily spreads on the interest rate and the monthly variance of the premium. The results confirm the role of interest costs and inside information risk and suggest that in the face of an increased flow of buy orders for dollars without a matching increase in sales, dealers respond by raising the spread. [F31]
Three Perspectives on Academic Narcissism
Thornton, Wm. H.,Fouser, Robert J. 충남대학교 미국학연구소 1989 美國學論文集 Vol.9 No.-
It is that drift which most concerns Lasch and Bellah. Bloom, on the other hand, is the unwitting apolgist for narci-ssism, coutering the narcissism of popular culture with his own brand of acadamic narcissism. If the positions of Lasch and Bellah were foreshadowed by Lippmann, that of Bloom was anticipated by Irving Babbutt - except that Babbitt was much more candid as to his anti-democratic sentiments.
THE DEBT CRISIS AND INTERNATIONAL LOAN SPREADS
THORNTON, JOHN 한국국제경제학회 1991 International Economic Journal Vol.5 No.4
This note uses the hypothesis that there are causal links between banks' lending decisions to test for contagion in spreads charged on international syndicated loans over the period 1974Q1 to 1989Q4. Granger-causality results show little evidence of spread contagion. The results suggest that banks are capable of discriminating among groups of borrowers and are consistent with the discrimination taking the form of credit rationing to particular groups of borrowers and/or adjustments to spreads charged to particular groups of borrowers.
Architecturing Nanospace via Thermal Rearrangement for Highly Efficient Gas Separations
Thornton, Aaron W.,Doherty, Cara M.,Falcaro, Paolo,Buso, Dario,Amenitsch, Heinz,Han, Sang Hoon,Lee, Young Moo,Hill, Anita J. American Chemical Society 2013 JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C - Vol.117 No.46
<P>The ability to monitor free volume formation during space-making treatments is critical for the ultrafine tuning of nanospace for efficient gas separation. Here, investigating the polymer thermal rearrangement using synchrotron in situ small-angle X-ray scattering for the first time and combining this information with transport theory, we elucidate the evolution of nanospace features in polymer-based gas separation membranes. The proposed nanospace monitoring technique encompasses the structure–property relationships, therefore offering a powerful tool for tuning the polymer properties for particular gas-related clean energy applications. These results demonstrate that the fine control of the nanospace dimension and magnitude leads to a drastic improvement in gas separation performance above any material to date.</P><P><B>Graphic Abstract</B> <IMG SRC='http://pubs.acs.org/appl/literatum/publisher/achs/journals/content/jpccck/2013/jpccck.2013.117.issue-46/jp410025b/production/images/medium/jp-2013-10025b_0006.gif'></P><P><A href='http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/jp410025b'>ACS Electronic Supporting Info</A></P>