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Good afternoon from the academy auditorium in your city. And you will join. Of the American Academy Institute of Arts and Letters to the program features the presentation of awards to architect Frank Lloyd Wright Marian Craig Moore and sculptor Ivan. The principal speaker is to be the noted British author Elizabeth Cohen. Titled subject and the time of. The presentation of Arts and Letters grants and an academy in Rome fellowship as well as the induction of new members. In just a moment the chairman of the day will. Take over and he is Archibald MacLeish. To open the program and I was the chairman of the day the chancellor of the academy Archibald MacLeish. Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the. American Academy on the National Institute of Arts and Letters. As in the past. Our ceremonial program is designed to illustrate the various ways in which both organisations attempt to stimulate. In artistic endeavor. Your presence here in such large numbers is a flattering indication of the interest you take in these proceedings. And to make sure that the affair is in good hands I shall now turn over the. Conduct of the meeting to our very distinguished chairman of the day Mr Archibald MacLeish Chason of the academy Mr McKinney. The opening remarks were by the president of the academy Mr Paul manship. Ladies and gentlemen. You will perhaps have noticed that this location to which the president of the Academy is so warmly welcomed. Is called a ceremonial. In case you should wonder why anything so lacking in ceremony should bear that title I think I should destroy it with the beginning by saying that we wondered to. We realize that there was very possibly a time when the members of the American Academy. And of the National Institute of Arts and Letters for gathered for the solemn purpose of celebrating with appropriate rights the fact that they existed. But that time certainly is past. Artist do not forget other open play in the world we live in to congratulate themselves on being what they are. They are more likely to meet in private and consider what is going to happen to them next day and the art they practice. It's only appropriate therefore to remark at the outset that whatever this occasion may be called. Our presence here is not to be regarded as a purely ceremonial presence. We are not to put it bluntly occupying these numbered chairs set back forth on the backs of your programs in order to be seen occupying them. We're here for reasons of our own. Sins artist of the most fanatical individual listener. They have to be any artist profession is to learn to be him self. It would not be altogether simple to say just what those reasons in any given case may be. We here on this platform differ from each other I suppose in every possible way. We differ on the theory of art on the practice of OD on the merits of other artists and even in extreme cases on the merits of each other. I see no reason therefore to assume that we would agree among ourselves as to why we are all here. But since the chancellor of the academy having no other perceptible function must at least be supposed to have the right to venture an opinion. I shall venture an opinion. I shall guess that one reason at the very least. For the presence here of every one of us. Is our common concern for the tools of our all. No man can be regarded as an artist at least by other artists who does not accept a duty to the tools he uses whether they be chisels or brushes or words or that most important of all the tools of all the arts the human hand that uses them. And that's the hand is free to move as it must to accept or reject as it pleases nothing can be accomplished. No sculptor can cut stone. No painter can draw out of the line no poet can achieve the word with another hand on his above all that heaviest and most insensitive of all other hands the hand of authority the hand of the state. I venture the guess that it is in part at least because we are concerned as all artists always must be for the condition of our tools for the freedom of our hands that we come here this afternoon. Known to testify of by our presence to our love of the Arts our respect for those who practice them and our support of these two institutions dedicated to their search. We have seen what has happened in other countries where the state undertook to extend its power to the convictions of the soul to the play of the mind to the act of the imagination to the Hound of the artist. We know how such infection spread even in the freest air even in the name of freedom. We have no wish to see that sickness here. This much at least I think our presence together on this platform can be understood to mean. I should like to introduce the secretary of the academy Mr Lowy Kronenberger would end up to the new members of the Institute Mr Lowy Kronenberg. On this pleasant occasion I have the particularly pleasant duty of welcoming our new members. There are ten of them all men and women of distinguished position. And happily all of them are present today let me read their names and ask each of them to stand up there we will show. Thanks. To Bush I was born in New York in one nine hundred ninety six he has made a significant personal contribution to the history of American art as a painter and muralist of long and distinguished experience he has a large following of ardent students his canvases. In many museums and private collections throughout the country and his mural decorations are to be found in the Radio City in New York and in the interior and Justice Department buildings in Washington. Thank her. John F. followings. Thanks for her thanks Mr Fonzie was born in Buffalo New York in one thousand nine hundred two and as a painter of distinction and power he is versatile and equally successful in pork mature and landscape painting his approach to art is personal and original and the sweep and vigor of his style mark him as one of the outstanding men of his generation. Thank you her thank Leo Friedlander. Thank her thank Mr Freelander was born in New York in one nine hundred ninety in a sculpture there is always the philosophy of form no part of his work is ever trivial no aspect of a truck is Arlington bridge groups or in the tradition of great sculpture thank her Thanks William Zahra. Thank her her sorrow born in Russian eight hundred eighty seven internationally known and admired as a sculptor of great distinction his work although powerful as great tenderness and warmth as an educator and as a writer on the methods and techniques of his art is out of broad influence on contemporary American sculpture Thank you. Her her thank you thank you Rachael Cossack thanks for what was Carson born in Springdale Pennsylvania as both a scientist and a writer of exceptional literary attainments in the Sea Around Us and under the sea when she has given us books that faithfully present the greater part of our planet in the seas physical and biological aspects they are felt as an artist would feel them and are rendered in prose of unusual richness and flexibility thanks for what Mary and follow. Thanks for what Mrs Cohen born in Ireland has lived in the United States since one thousand nine hundred thirteen hers is an invigorating critical intelligence right it is one of the best of our time both in her books and in her reviews and special articles which have been published in leading periodicals here and abroad she's made a creative interpretation of modern literature and the ideas from which it is sprung thank her for her thanks all things. For her thank you Mr Humphreys born in Philadelphia and eight hundred ninety four is recognized as one of the most distinguished poets of our day and long as genuine achievements of five volumes of poems and more recently his translation into English verse of the entire new head of Virgil which is then a claim by scholars and lovers of poetry both here and in England as the finest rendering since Dryden's and among the finest traditions of any great work ever made her. Her. Her. Walk was James thank you her thank you Mr James born in Springfield Missouri in eight hundred ninety one is one of the most distinguished of American biographers twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize is the author of the life of Sam Houston and another of Andrew Jackson which combine thorough scholarship with a literary style of great charm is Cherokee Strip and education of his boyhood in Oklahoma ranks the best autobiographical sketches of the West ever produced in this country her while holding newborn. Her just a neighbor or born in right City Missouri in one thousand nine hundred two has been professor of applied Christianity at Union Theological Seminary for over twenty years without losing his interest in practical affairs has become one of our few speculative thinkers has revitalized Protestant theology in this country and to serve as an intellectual guide some of our most thoughtful poets a novelist her her thanks Wallingford linger. Thank you for what it was during your born in Albany Georgia in eight hundred eighty five is one of the most telling composers in the older generation of this period in America he did not win thing easily but since one thousand nine hundred twenty two when he won the powder russkie prize has reached an ever widening circle of admirers year by year in spite of his uncompromising attitude toward his work. Thank. The ground's an author and letters of the American Academy of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. And the fellowship of the American Academy in Rome of the academy and his to do will be presented by Mark Connelly the president of the Institute. Annually it is the happy duty for the Academy an institute to recognize fifteen artists writers and composers whose matured talents have been demonstrated in outstanding works. The recognition becomes presently stand in the form of grants of one thousand dollars each. And it is now my privilege to introduce to you all but two of this year's grantees and present them with material encouragements toward further creative efforts. And it would make the individual presentations easier if each grantee who would be good enough to come to the stage on hearing his or her name. Would be no kind of Alito. I. Let the Cavalier tell in recognition of a gifted artist whose richly carved figure sculptures of figures and animals express why arm feeling or this. Hour of. Jacob who. Lawrence. Mr Lawrence born in Atlantic City New Jersey in recognition of a gifted artist whose work is original in design and color and his touch with love for his fellow man. William C. Palmer. Mr Palmer born in Des Moines Iowa in recognition of a fine art and to search for truth and beauty and his painting with a mystical quality. Francis Speight. Mr Speight born in Windsor North Carolina in recognition of a sensitive artist who expresses through his painting the charm and loveliness of motifs inspired by his environment. Carlo Max Phil Tice. Born a new member Bavaria in recognition of distinguished achievements in the. Field of edging and engraving his work by its integrity and expressive draftsmanship insensitive feeling constitutes a living link in the great tradition of graphic art. And in the field of literature. We first welcomed Mr Eric Bentley. Mr Bentley born in England and in recognition of his outstanding work as a critic of the theater a director or a theater and the author of several distinguished books among them a century if you will worship and the playwright as thinker. Isabel Bolton. As a potent and private life Mary Britton Miller born in New London Connecticut in recognition of the moral passion and precision stink of the writing revealed in her trilogy about like Oracle novels do I wake or sleep the Christmas tree and many mansions. Richard chase. Mr Chase born anew. Hampster for his critical writing which is notable for the breadth of its scholarship the precision of its literary discriminations in the best city of its moral perceptions and in particular for his three books the quest for myth Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Francis Ferguson. Mr Ferguson born in Albuquerque New Mexico for his penetrating literary criticism particularly in the field of the drama do which he brings scholarship of a high order a precise sense of aesthetic values in a prose style of elegance and strength. PAUL of good men. To Mr Goodman born in New York City in recognition of his original contribution to the new writing of this period. Of the john to an ironic observation of personal and public matters in his prose and of the lyrical intensity of his poetry. Delmore shorts. To mist wants born in Brooklyn New York. Rap. The first to formulate poetically the consciousness of his own generation in America and who in his later verse experimental fiction and criticism as devoted himself candidly to exploring and defining a vigorous relation between the life of letters and the general life. And in the Department of Music. Roger Gould. Thanks. Mr Goh born in Iowa way in recognition of his daring exploration of modern tonal resources in both the orchestral and chamber music fields which has shown him to be one of the most promising composers of his generation. Peggy landfill Hicks. To Miss Hicks born in Australia in recognition of her sensitive poetic and imaginative understanding of musical materials which is evidence both in her critical writings and her compositions of voice and Chamber Ensemble. The grantees only must congratulate in absentia are in art Mr Hyman Bloom born in Latvia in recognition of an unusually talented painter his work is rich in its form powerful and effective a deep emotion. I am in music to make a lie up but the cough born in Russia becoming a knighted state citizen in one nine hundred forty four in recognition of his substantial contributions to the literature of symphonic and chamber music proves him to be a master of contemporary poem and style. The conclusion of my pleasant task is the recognition of another unusual talent with the anyone presentation of the American Academy of Arts and Letters fellowship to the American Academy in Rome. Will miss a great dilema Please join me on the platform. Mr Lima born in New York City. A young novelist of accomplishment and promise whose first books bear witness to her knowledge that art speaks not from the judgment seat but the reaches of compassion that the writing of fiction is a formal problem as well as a problem in understanding and that substance can be conveyed in rich and subtle prose. The gold medal of the National Institute. Presented by the American Academy this year for poetry. Will be presented to Marianne Craig Moore by Glen way west and Mr WEST. Some thirty years ago I came to know. From the Middle West and called on Miss Moore in admiration. As I remember I had not been seen her first book published in one nine hundred twenty one in London. But I had copied out in a loose leaf book for myself a number of poems from magazines. Thus in a perspective of half a lifetime I realized my indebtedness to her. I esteem has increased with every item of her life work. My enjoyment accumulated and compound it. And it is a privilege to say personally thank you in this great public place. Upon that first visit or perhaps it was the second or third visit Miss Moore mentioned to me a bird that I had to confess my unfamiliarity with so she offered to show me one of its feathers and brought down from a clothes closet a little sort of shoe box room full of feather us as she searched for the while in the was to educate me she kept finding others which stirred her reason remembrance and inspired her brilliancy of conversation. For half an hour she talked to me she evoked birdlife specified there had bit and habitats and transpose their music into words this is stayed in my mind always as an image of one of the processes of poetry at least of of Miss Morse poetry. She gathers and preserves feathers. Upon which the press simply meditates with reference and cross reference to various odd information and with an intense way of philosophizing and moralizing and now and then feelings of in tantamount and police. She. Combines feathers in the best possible or didn't in this and dissociative mist. And somehow. Perhaps it is a mystery certain it isn't perhaps it is a miracle said it's a mystery. She therefore develops and about hind the. More or less borrowed more or less scholarly prunes a body of original thought and a very serious aesthetic by way of bony structure. And suddenly the feathers thinking it is a poem. The institute is well aware that its present award to Miss Moore is not a bold singularity or an innovation she has now had almost all the honors available to the point in this country. Giving a lot of them in a heap at last is an American way. But to deserve them miss more labored for three or four decades without the least ease or profit or popularity and that also even in the twentieth century is an American way. She has been heard to quibble about the words poet and poetry as perhaps not altogether applicable to her and her work. All these medals prizes fellowships suggest that if she is less lyrical than other practitioners of the Muse who cares. It is a pleasant exercise to try to testify in her work exactly. She has perhaps the most poetical personality on earth and all those choosing to express herself in relatively prosaic style. Indeed her work would be wonderful prose if it were not in fact impeccable verse well measured. And strangely musical. She has a mind of her own on almost any subject perhaps not striving to be original but vigorously avoiding the ordinary. Of course her work has imperfections. But to study them on the counter the originality. One has to compare the passage in question with other passages by her. Nothing ever seems quite commensurable with anyone else's production or with generalized criticism. We may say of poetry as she writes it what in one of her finest poems she has said the truth. That it is no Apollo Belvedere no formal thing. The wave may go over it if it likes know that it will be there when it says I shall be there when the wave has gone by. Reconsidering my lifetime appreciation of her I see that indeed her work has been under all the overpowering tides and Wild Storm and amid all the stagnant waters like a rock. And I refer not only to waves and doll drums of my life but to the death and the newness and knowledge in the world at large horrible world consciousness and not knowing what to do about it. From girlhood om Marianne lore has declared that poetry would continue to be there in spite of all and by her ministration it has continued. Now representing the National Institute of Arts and Letters and in behalf of the American Academy of Arts and Letters I give the gold medal for distinguished achievement in poetry. Marianne Craig more than one. Mr WEST. As a man. I can. Say this I can't say anything else but the moment magnanimity is a magnificent anomaly. You know if mental is were awarded for additions nothing could be more appropriate than the decision of the Institute to present to me its meant gold medal for poetry for nine hundred fifty three. It is for achievement however but. Ours are bestowed and we are indebted to various of my associates for achievements are at it. Being the case I can but do. As the members of the Institute themselves have done way. Law A-G.. And assure them undeserved honors will not make me but. You soak me in for all the little goose who tried to be an ox she was so grandiose. Illogical idealism can be as powerful and in implementing effort as if it were reasonable permit me to testify that this is so. And so a that I still double effort to in the hope Don I yet justify the confidence which the members of the Institute have expressed. Just in me. To a. Land where you did indeed speak for the Institute and the Academy spoke beautifully thank you and. The gold medal of the National Institute. Presented by the Academy for Architect year will be presented to Frank Lloyd Wright by Ralph Walker. To walk thanks to a. Frank Lloyd Wright. You are part and parcel of the Wonder making pioneer spirit of our people. It is difficult to say you something new about you or in your long eventful life you have been called many things. April media's and bringing the staring flame of a new architecture a Moses leading in the collective United into the promised land of our Gani creation. And law since as a prophet well honored in his own country. Certainly you are neither a shy cowslip to be gathered casually on a low or a pastor in Wisconsin. Nor have you been I wrecked loose cloistered in a garden high on television. On the contrary you have built not. One But many Emersonian mousetraps and the wild has beaten are well on and widening pack and merited appreciation. This honor about to be given you is just another leaf added to an already glowing Laro chocolate and will render butter for the luster. To a brow that was never about. A true pioneer you Ellie set a course on which you have never swear. And along which is an octogenarian you still walk with the will and the directness of you. Your works thoughts ever sought above pedestrian paths a blind spirit with more of Puck than of aerial your design of buildings as if they were to take their place in a happy a well one of light grace of gadding and far human beings who are not burdened with fear for humans who live in a way of where what seems possible is actually so. And where the planet concept of democracy seems a reality. All your life you have denied the minimum and have reached for the stars a free man and a free land you have asked a grab society to compromise with you on the basis of your ideals. You have created an architecture in which you have been thoughtfully aware of the powerful forces implicated in the new inventions and though philosophically concerned with a machine you have never held that it should merely and heedlessly produce more. Machines or more machine like objects. That it should be used to make a weld and which function maybe can hold so as to emancipate in slaving form and to increase the possibilities for new founded cities whose broadacre is as green as those beside the still waters will furnish that beauty of life for which man has ever sought. You know well in which the Arctic is increasingly asked to sing a guttural and meagre Esperanto. Your voice is as won and is as native as oceans and. The National is through the Boston letters here on it as an American who is creative forces illustrate the anticipations of another great pioneer lot with me. I swear to you the architects who appreciate it will appear without fail I announced them and lead them I swear they will understand you and justify you. Frank Lloyd Wright has made you a pleasure in the battle for whom one there isn't gentleman I had no idea how odd religiously inadequate this introduction by Mr out Barker would be an alumni was. Going on. Your sig. It's not so easy. I myself rolled something for this occasion. And came to feel it was still Russia today and that it could also and I abandon it. And decided to say very little if anything. Here Sears these honors had descended upon me one by one somehow expected each honor would add a certain luster. A certain brightness. To. The psyche which is mine. On the contrary a shout of seems to fall with each one. I think it casts a shadow on my native arrogance. And for a moment I feel. Coming on this disease which is recommended still had their humanity. In new so if this is to keep up I'm afraid that I'm going to lose my usefulness to myself. However it's a very happy occasion for me to be welcomed as a home. Home Boy I come back you know on home boy I makes good there's nothing quite so good as there. Well perhaps after all. There is something in an organic architecture that eventually will be understood. And all I have to say to you here to day is simply this. Of course the old. Abstraction. By way of our se is by way of asceticism by way of ascetics has robbed us not only in architecture but of all the things that go with it. That all the things that should go with the mother. So let me say that if we are to have an architecture of our own and that will be the basis of a culture of our own if we have a have. It will be. Philosophic what we need now is a philosophy. And I feel our survey is a search for truth. And asceticism is a matter of taste it's a matter of seeing and feeling what you like as you like it but we know very little we know nothing of the fundamentalists underlying this NG that we call a culture. A civilization we have it's a way of life and that's all it is a culture would be a way of making ways of making that way of life beautiful and we haven't begun it. We live in an income good and an inconsistency. It is positive and a disgrace. And I think it's not too much to dos that saying of the English put. Every man what is it wherever a prospect pleases and every man is. That's the office of architecture and of the architect he is a poet. Chord So they're not thing. And it's that poetry which is not valued as higher than I was which they. Say that you're a poet is to confess a certain measure of weakness isn't it. Say that you're a poet and a leg. Claim to being a poet but you're rather in the backyard and out of things and tired of the perception goes on without you. Only know that it's wrong but we aren't doing anything about it and here. Among my fellows to day. I ask their cooperation to. Set aside. For some years to come the aesthetic. And to try and think a little deeper. And get our feet down on the ground onto something really that we can do is the truth. The. Coming on of the disease of humility still leaves a hole and passionate man. The award of merit medal of the. American Academy for painting. Will be presented to even Mr bench by Paul mansion at the mansion. It says Dr that. I now have a. Bed this is the present patient I haven't mastered each. Medal. Awarded American medal cash prize one thousand dollars which is conferred by the mag cadre of oxalate. Just a mess of it. It was Barnes and Yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred three. Greg county of arts and letter gives this award annually do an outstanding person in the arts who is not a regular member of the academy or of its parent body. To It is awarded to a sculptor only once in five years it being given another year is for fiction poetry drama and. Mr best of it has had a long record of distinction in the realm of sculpture. Beginning with his first success at the Paris alone in one thousand eight at the age of twenty five when the scope power and technical skill of his work won for him the admiration the friends friendship. Since then his fame has become international and his sculpture has sculptures that found an abiding place in museums public buildings and private collections throughout the Western world. His spiritual convictions have led him to dedicate long years of effort. To the interpretation of biblical themes and classical legends of heroic grand share. But an equal source of inspiration for has been. Excuse me but an equal source of inspiration for some of his great masterpieces has been the story of his own country's sacrifices and courage. During the last war despite his great failing he was imprisoned at Zagreb because of his sympathies for the Western Allies and narrowly escaped only through the end station of the Vatican in one thousand nine hundred forty seven he was invited to come to America to found a school of sculpture at the University of Sara Q. And on his arrival he receives a signal honor of a one man show up at the Metropolitan Museum. Mark a distinction never before conferred on a living artist. Nothing. I haven't mastered rich because of the vigorous self-discipline that shows in all your work. The profound religious emotion it's communicates the vigor and majesty of your conception I am pretty proud to present to you the award of merit medal by the American Academy of Arts and Letters I thank the was. Mr Meserve H. has asked me to read to you his acceptance of this award. And so I am proud and happy to do it. And he says I am both honored and touched by the award given me by the American Academy of Arts and Letters every man is pleased when others say that is efforts have not been in vain. Especially when the recognition from comes from such an eminent institution as the American Academy of Arts and Letters Obviously I show up appreciate greatly the honors bestowed upon me yet I hesitate to appear in person to receive this honor I do not like to be the center of attention and I feel like many other sculptors myself and adequacy in speech making. It is not necessary for me to emphasize since you are all aware of it that an important role in creative art. That the important role played in creative art. In the existence is a man in. Particular. And of the human community in general it is not only the expression of the spiritual personality of the artist but likewise the expression of his total and Vironment. Creative Art is not only the means to and the result of a driving need for personal expression. It is also the stimulus for others to express themselves in their old way and to the extent I allowed them by their own ability. Art contribution to cultural progress by adding new and original elements to it it is a basis for a better appreciation and of and evaluation of our heritage This is why all creative artists have their own Apostolate mission which is in many ways a kin to religion. To fulfill this creative mission has not been easy in any NG and it is an especially difficult one in our own. This is due to several reasons. First because it is never easy to express one's thoughts and feelings clearly and adequately Secondly a man must fight for the freedom of his own expression thirdly an artist must struggle for his livelihood on the opportunity to place is works. The first difficulty is inherit in all creative effort. The second is due to the cultural pattern of people who think that one can and must express oneself only in a way to which they are accustomed. With feelings that are familiar to them. The third difficulty arises from the fact that only a relative really small number of people understand art and its significance in the development of man guy. Those who do understand it often lack material means and social position since I have adventure to express more than a mere Thanks for the award bestowed upon me allow me to say to my colleagues especially to the younger ones. Creative Artists have always been. And Quansah consequently they should be also today the most munificent patrons of art they give all or are without regard for reward just as a mother gives all for her children. Consequently our main purpose and duty should be to create out of love for our mission. The man who feels this dry within himself will succeed despite all difficulties. The history of art and culture does not concern itself with our man eats or dresses but rather with what he creates and leads to posterity. This. Why no matter how difficult our marriage material position we must consider ourselves wealthy let us strive to share our wealth with other. Thanks. Thanks. A mere presence of Mr masturbates on the platform sort of serves to correct the misprint on our program and should certainly go for stalled my repetition of it I apologize. The blush field address. Will be given by Elizabeth Bowen. Who belongs. Not only in that distinguished line of Irish writers to home American letter to all those so much. And not only in that brilliant company of British women novelists. Would dispose So when the particular of a distinction which was once assumed to be as in erratic couple in letters your as in biology. But also in the great tradition of English prose. And the time which is produced many stylists are Lizabeth Bowen has achieved a style. But it is not only for the passion of her work that we have wished to hear her. Elizabeth Bowen has used her art not to escape the history of her time but to discover it where alone it can be confronted and understood. In the sensibility of the human heart. And I have the great honor of presenting to you Elizabeth bowing thank you and was. To. This book Talent ladies and gentleman. I am speaking about subject and at the time. How do we judge. Contemporary art. What particular hoop. Or expectation. Do we bring to the painting music architect. Third pray all pro all of our day. Our expectation as. The free and open. Or do we perhaps have a rigid and preconceived idea. Of thought contemporary art. In its expression of us should be. If. We claim. The power. To comprehend. The comma. Meaning. Implications of our time. More truly there. And in advance all of our own. We are attaching ourselves to a state. Cretin sieved who view. And this. Is wrong because any seat picked out. Of time it self of our good day is bad need. To be a full swath. Today is fluid. And dead fluidity must conflict itself. Like that affliction of they. All walked out on of the nations ceiling. On to opt. To fail to see there. Is to misstate the very nature are all of the contemporary. Al since our time is infect a sense. Today is to be filled out. Mode today then it is to be known. What is most nearly pill in our existence is a mete of sin safe rooms and at the hinge. End it we wish to know. The need to define to formulate. To be precise to kill some kind of an order. Is inherent in our human. State and then out easily. Be gainsaying. The brain screens off the evaluations. And Sumeet is that we in time the danger. Of the. Concept. We are tempted by the plausible explanation. And thought might be pulled the respectable idea. And so. I thought of all the wish invited to lead a life so whole life in the abstract. Weekend to set of eyes what is most cruel and moves from reading in the moment praying spontaneity is of exists. So is it the heads if we go astray. Somehow we do was a timed of Krishna's. We see alienated. From. The context knows that we are alive which is to say that we are alive now. Some time to eat that immediacy is lost. In order to meet again the freshness we must have the realized safe. For the red eyes a vision we must have the expression. And for the expression we look to up. Not only. Need to act in the abstract in the aggregate that we look in a particular way to forties a brisk without us and a kid without us and perhaps a little ahead of us in the tip of the contemporary art the art of Ottoman time. We must expect from this art something a little in advance of what we think we know. We must expect it to break away from the preconceived image and this pig that. We are wrong if we have to spit from out a wreath statement. Even though a restatement made with sublime oath oath thought of pick. Out is not it restatement it is. It worth about a statement made for the first time. The art of the past. Eases us that it's sublime it's almost can pull somebody out of today. We have inherited it. And it is indeed a noble and best component part of our tips better. It seems to look strict and to distill. To simplify the idea that. Endows the return to us everything moves that ideal. In the sensation of living. As a living of the life as it should be. A little living in this fab ice cream and face. Their job doubt from any part of the past. From it that has evaporated the original Huff was the only inconvenience with footage if we time to think it must have impacted upon the people of its time. It is now written silent and reconciling to us. A pattern OK. We all sat jot. Timeless daily and say it's hit upon us is that it capitulates and it did to my eyes it. Was for it in. A moment of time. But we liked to do we'll be pulled a. Timeless. As I say it eases us end it's a spin. To precede anxious edge of a ting. But you'll not complete. The negative wanting uncommented sense thought to time and pop an obvious stranger and for me. This insoluble problem of how and why we live. And fly and how it is that we live now is for the moment. Away all as we regard the simple timeless picture step down monument of architecture all it's week but that's really the music. And it put the video reason that they had suspension is it achieved that is Sam King. In the moment where we have been said. In the op of the past. It does not begin path. Statement for us. It does not even a suggestion of the onset of the who question that we are back on the raids. To day has a new never happened oh befall. It must be expressed in something as I'm disappointed as itself. Day exceeds the footpad beer A.R.V. yesterday. Of the artist of the Create half its began a long. Continuous lay reply was an Edison. An addition to the cabinet or a where they'd be of comma sound and form shape all words. Music or prose. Thought. We have now. Has new. President new set. Present what we have and most of all what we are. And we reply our. Hour today requires for its expression something for which no you exit east to keep present is to be found. We look. To opt. In any of it for us. To concentrate and. Deepen our sense of the now. We look. To the pose our pain. Aka taped the. Perfect or the turn of the story. To. Heal the a strange moment we feel but we pressure how and you into intuitional. To bridge over that dislocation between this sense and the stances. It is. To the creative person. It can not for the loo not be quest of the vision that he or she has but for the challenge to the vision which we carry as a path inside ourselves. Artist who is our contemporary. Puts us through the ordeal Oh he'll be hooting. And even mom from us a certain pillar to. In. Response. He is causing us to see for the first time. What these in fact to be for that has that. And if in the means he uses to achieve this sort of net and proper broccolis. He must break with tradition. He must view bodies without present and without oath or thought OK. He's decision surely is not to be denied. These rapes these abandonment of what has become without use the and the discoveries of the new possibility of a cat or a and in fact we may say even going on continuously from if up to people from generation to generation. It is that's the bang which. In any medium is a maroon remained alive. And if it's only a. Of change of the discarding of the revenue from all the innovation within what is exactly. Time that we are aware of. The traditional opposition to Bach is not traditional need not concern us we are not any of us. I am Meghan against the wish or POV to express create in any way by any means in any medium I think the contemporary expression. Maybe done. All that we must expect of ourselves is a pretty good reason for the surprise ending to. Willingness to refer throughout I gave. Up now to this almost forgotten freshness and acute sense in the relation of mine and the novel. Which to our room and concept. And cerebral yet I think we may have by lost. The novel the story which is my Providence. Nominally stands at the edge of. The novel is mole mercs in the every day more fit to all the more circumstantial. It must and indeed it should be. To tell it they can know the story. The right of the drama must show his hand motor me to play its attitude must. Its argument must be lists of Merck's. He is more quick to please order welfare and. He is no immediate contact with a person with shy of an approach to the call of art. That even so I believe that the novelist. Owing to these added McCabe kinship with the. Poet. Is a way out he lay. All the time between time and subject. And of the A group. All of the time to dictate the subject for the story. As indeed. It influences and select. The less ostensible this concrete this comprehensible subject of the music the painting. And the. Poet. The novelist like the paint out of the representational anon abstract of the Pick a picture is tied to subject in the exact sense of what is concrete but each met effect bought these else a tense a ball. And he can lay like the paint to make his choice inside a surprisingly small a surprisingly a patented traditional ravings. Like the paint thousand apples arm of the plate or street scene. Or spray the. Sunshine all group. The subjects of the novelist seem to repeat themselves and to reappear. I think however that they could is not so much in the choice as in the age of chilled to the subject the proposal the placing all right the angle the illumination and the relation of it to parties around that the writer. Since all of his time. He has in common with the great doubt and more directly creative artists I think it is in that they had the sense of time the most a pads. These states subject. That the subject of the painting reflects the comma the pulse of what's around it. The subject. Is seized. Submerged she used in the statement which is made she used in the story which is. As it is she used in the. All this kept up all the child. But that none of them is it is both and affecting the imagination of the create doubt and working I believe Egypt to flair and constructive play on the minds of those. Whose imagination can be most easily approached by parties the better OK most. Simple most representation of all and most realistic. Good day is. A climax of time. If you see it stream to which any experience has so far God. It is the outcome of the enormous. Past. And when we see it in relation to what has been thought was produced it. When we see it in up. Of this evolving pattern we cannot I think feel in the big greatest of all of despondency there Denise intonation is irrelevant I'm meaning. The day any action all salt is accidental and one not bad fruit. Read. Today which is gong to compose the past. That great man of the days of ye eat yesterday each of those two days those in pubs has beaten Motorola is unique in the expression of a genius of it. The genius as being in the. B. third day. And the past. Has been in the night unique to their cage in its it of. In there since we have made claim a must you was I mean yes. We need not seek fall for subject subject is found by time. I am to my. Eye mask to make a few. Practical remarks first of all in order to avoid. Congestion the audience is requested to remain seated until the stage is clear and those. The stage if they are capable of acting with unanimity are to act with unanimity and get off it. Those in the orchestra may reach the terrace by going back as they came in that is going up by the doors on a hundred fifty sixth Street walking east to Broadway and entering the terrace on Broadway between one hundred fifty one hundred fifty six it would have to leave behind. Those in the balcony and lower requested to leave by the exits on the right on the left hand side above the stage and to approach the terrace through the building and will you please hold your tickets for presentation of the terrace on behalf of the academy and of the Institute and all of you. I wish. On behalf of the academy and the institutes and all of you I wish to thank Elizabeth Bowen one of the most extraordinarily clear and dock to kill us and searching statements that has been made in this room. You have been listening to the annual join ceremonial of the American Academy Institute of Arts and Letters brought to you by your city station directly from the academy auditorium the program included the presentation of awards and grants as well as inductions of new members to the nation's highest artistic and literary organizations this has been a special feature of your city station we return you knowledge to our studios in the municipal building.