{"id":986,"date":"2009-09-06T00:47:03","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T04:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=986"},"modified":"2009-09-06T00:47:03","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T04:47:03","slug":"today-in-the-frye-diaries-6-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/09\/06\/today-in-the-frye-diaries-6-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in the Frye Diaries, 6 September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/08\/teenagers-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"teenagers\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">1942<\/span><\/em><\/strong>: <em>The difficulties with cultivating the young<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[98] A cousin of Helen&#8217;s living in Forest dropped in. Interested in music, &amp; apparently planning to teach it. Asked her what she was working on &amp; she said &#8220;Grade Ten.&#8221; Probed further &amp; she said &#8220;Beethoven.&#8221; &#8220;One of the sonatas?&#8221; I suggested.\u00a0&#8220;Guess so,&#8221; she said. She has a voice like a kitchen stove falling downstairs. I can&#8217;t understand the superstitious &amp; barbaric notion in this country that it&#8217;s sissified to to cultivate an accent. The idea that correct &amp; well-modulated speech is a fundamental cornerstone of culture doesn&#8217;t occur to my students, many of whom make noises like the cry of the great bronze grackle in the mating season. As it isn&#8217;t part of one&#8217;s education, I can&#8217;t teach it: I&#8217;m just the best friend who won&#8217;t tell them. The Yankee method of talking through the nowse and hawnking like a fahghowrrn is very widespread; some whine like flying shells, some mutter like priests, some chew &amp; gurgle like cement mixers. Ten minutes of frank talking to this girl and I could raise her several notches in the scale of culture: she&#8217;s a bright kid and can take things on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Aspects of this complete diary entry were included and expanded in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=WzgZrML6tQ0C&amp;pg=PA103&amp;lpg=PA103&amp;dq=reflections+at+a+movie+northrop+frye&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=RNpJDBpscG&amp;sig=_gKEaxNvNM-HWWi_znbbix1tgjg&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=0pCRSrHwNpDIMNjl4JEK&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=2#v=onepage&amp;q=&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">Reflections at a Movie<\/a>,&#8221; <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com\/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&amp;Params=A1ARTA0001289\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Forum<\/a> 22 (October 1942). <em>The entire article can be found at the\u00a0above link, reproduced in the <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=WzgZrML6tQ0C&amp;pg=PP4&amp;dq=northrop+frye+collected+works+volume+11#v=onepage&amp;q=northrop%20frye%20collected%20works%20volume%2011&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">Collected Works, volume 11<\/a>, edited by Jan Gorak.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">1950<\/span><\/strong>: No entry.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1942: The difficulties with cultivating the young. 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