Word: forsworn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Towards the end of his New Jersey visit, he had said: "It is not, and should not be, a campaign based on personalities." Prior to that he had forsworn Intolerance, in his speech of acceptance. He left to Chair- man Work a further repudiation of Whispering. The way his mind was working was revealed by two things he said to some Marylanders who came to see him: "Membership in a political organization is no disgrace," and, "Our campaign is based upon our issues. It is not a campaign of opposition. It is a campaign in favor of the issues...
...music, however, that he conducted with so much verve for that assemblage in the famed concert hall, the music which had made him so famous was, for him, the music of yesterday. Yet there were not a few in the great assemblage who love still the loveliness he has forsworn; and, though the members of the Philharmonic Orchestra seemed to weary of all his impetuous antics, to grow listless in sounding their horns and strings, these people applauded long the music of the old Stravinsky, by the new Stravinsky...