{"id":29199,"date":"2012-05-02T12:32:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=29199"},"modified":"2012-05-02T12:32:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:32:22","slug":"remarks-by-northrop-frye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2012\/05\/02\/remarks-by-northrop-frye\/","title":{"rendered":"Remarks by Northrop Frye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/2012\/05\/02\/remarks-by-northrop-frye\/attachment\/1692419\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29201\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29201\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/05\/1692419-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/05\/1692419-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/05\/1692419.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>Remarks by Northrop Frye on Having Received a Toronto<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement, 13 October 1987<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>[Frye was presented for the award by Pauline McGibbon, his classmate and friend and lieutenant\u2011governor of Ontario.]<\/p>\n<p>Thank you very much Pauline and ladies and gentlemen.\u00a0 I suppose if one gets a lifetime achievement award one must have done fairly well in what we\u2019re told is the primary Canadian virtue\u2013\u2013survival.\u00a0 I\u2019ve lived in Toronto continuously for nearly sixty years, and as your hostess remarked earlier this evening it wasn\u2019t always a fun town.\u00a0 In 1929 there were no decent restaurants\u2013\u2013after all it was an Anglo\u2011Saxon community.\u00a0 There was nothing to drink\u2013\u2013after all it was Ontario.\u00a0 And there were millions of churches.\u00a0 There was only one thing to do on Sunday but you had a lot of choices to do it.<\/p>\n<p>From there, of course, Toronto grew into this tremendous, exhilarating, cosmopolitan city.\u00a0 One disadvantage of a city as it grows larger is that it gets more impersonal, and there\u2019s less a sense of belonging.\u00a0 What this extraordinary honor has done for me is to make me feel that not only does Toronto care about its own cultural life, not only is it aware of it, not only does it want to encourage it, but it gives those who live and work here a sense of belonging.\u00a0 That is the feeling that I think I would have had in any case if anyone else in my field had got the award, but then, of course, I wouldn\u2019t have had a chance to say so.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remarks by Northrop Frye on Having Received a Toronto Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement, 13 October 1987. 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