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Word: betty (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Explains Mrs. Betti Green, a cochairman: "White policemen and their bullets do not know that your daughter wants a doll or your son a bicycle for Christmas. We will be trying to stress that a child's need for the love and guidance of his parents is far greater than his need for toys and trinkets on Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cooling It for Christmas | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...Betti's play is just as much of a sleeper as the production. One of the lesser-known worlds of a lesser-known playwright, Goat Island is a full-grown tragedy about a woman's search for moral certainty. Unlike other Betti plays, it manages not to get obsessed with the question of justice for its own sake. Betti was both a lawyer and a judge, but in Goat Island he uses the legal metaphor only as a structural device, a means of pushing the play's heroine toward her realization...

Author: By Jim Lardner, | Title: Goat Island | 12/10/1966 | See Source »

...Most of the ones who fill out polls seem to like the rep system like the shows--the ones who write little notes to us all want to see us do something far-out, like Giradoux, or Ugo Betti...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Loeb to Stick To Repertory | 8/19/1965 | See Source »

CORRUPTION IN THE PALACE OF JUSTICE. Playwright Ugo Betti finds a tiny glint of light in the tarnished soul of a corrupt justice and gives it a chance to shine after a suffocating night journey through the earthly kingdom of evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 13, 1963 | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

CORRUPTION IN THE PALACE OF JUSTICE, by Ugo Betti, relentlessly builds to an unheard scream of conscience that resonates in the soul of an evil justice until he takes the first unsteady steps toward repentance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 6, 1963 | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

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