Word: forrestic
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...armes, citoyens! Shake off passivity. We must recover some of the aesthetic activism that came into play in the Astor Place Riots of May, 1849, when New York audiences of Shakespeare divided their loyalties between the American actor Edwin Forrest and the British actor William Charles Macready. Forrest gave a crude, robust, vehement interpretation of Macbeth. Macready was more cerebral...
...Feelings ran very high. At Macready's opening performance at the Astor Place Opera House, on May 7, partisans of Forrest threw rotten eggs and potatoes. Does this give you ideas? Think of the ammunition available in a supermarket...
...Winston Groom Author, Forrest Gump To try to tell someone who wasn't there about your experiences is like trying to describe the color blue to a blind man. I served as a lieutenant with the 4th Infantry Division. I was a psychological-warfare officer. I didn't say anything about my war experiences for years. I remember going out to the scene of a big fire fight?40 to 50 bodies, horribly mutilated, that had been dragged into this field. My job was to take pictures of them. The pictures would be put on leaflets that would be dropped...
...statue, I watch a car pull up and follow a young man who goes to have a look at Forrest. "They want this statue moved because he started the K.K.K. That's the only reason," William Greene, 22, a white, unemployed local guy says indignantly. "To me he's a hero who represents what we're about. The K.K.K.--you could take it as you want. There's n______ that are black and white and other groups...The Klan is against scum of all types...
...about the same Civil War hero and Klan co-founder celebrated on the wall of the Confederate Presbyterian Church in Wiggins, Miss., the same man memorialized by that monument in Selma. The clip-out order form for the book said, "Yes, I want to ride with General Nathan Bedford Forrest!" It has been too long a ride, and the travelers seem pretty well exhausted...