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Q & A
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Q. Why does the town of Westborough have an odd bow shape at its
western end?
A. Boundary disputes have defined and redefined Westborough since
even before its incorporation in 1717.
Westborough - so called because it was the western portion of
Marlborough - was originally known as Chauncy Village, after the Rev.
Charles Chauncy (1592-1672), the second president of Harvard College,
according to Kristina Nilson Allen's book "On the Beaten Path:
Westborough, Massachusetts" (1984).
According to Allen, Chauncy earned his land the old-fashioned way -
as a grant from the Colonial Legislature, which ...
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Ugo Betti. Frano allo Scalo Nord.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Annali d'Italianistica
; Ugo Betti. Frano allo Scalo Nord. Ed. Alfredo Luzi. Camerino: Universita degli...130. Along with novels of Alberto Moravia (1907-1990), the plays of Ugo Betti (1892-1953) proved a major influence on the French existentialists of...
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Ugo Betti: letterato e drammaturgo.(Italian Bookshelf)
Magazine article from: Annali d'Italianistica
; Ugo Betti: letterato e drammaturgo. A cura di Alfredo Luzi. Atti del convegno Macerata...Pp. 215. La fortuna o, se si preferisce la sfortuna, artistica di Ugo Betti e uno dei tanti segni del tempo. Si deve andare indietro di quasi mezzo...
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Ugo Betti. Novelle edite e rare.(article in Italian)
Magazine article from: Annali d'Italianistica
; Ugo Betti. Novelle edite e rare. A cura di Alfredo...integrale delle opere edite ed inedite di Betti, inclusi il teatro e le poesie. Come sottolinea...diventati irreperibili. L'importanza di Betti nello sviluppo della letteratura marchigiana...
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YORK UNIVERSITY: Theatre @ York presents Crime on Goat Island by Ugo Betti.
M2 Presswire
; ...UNIVERSITY: Theatre @ York presents Crime on Goat Island by Ugo Betti (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:030399 TORONTO -- Theatre @ York presents Ugo Betti's powerful and suspenseful play Crime on Goat Island...
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Obituary: Professor G. H. McWilliam
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...had persuaded him to start postgraduate work on Ugo Betti. The thesis on Betti was never quite completed, but the study of the...was later to bear fruit in his 1964 translation Ugo Betti: Three Plays on Justice and in an edition of two...
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Theater;Center Stage's Sinister `Queen'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...cerebral approach to a text can be. Ugo Betti's play is a revolution-set melodrama...horror-dream world doesn't imprison Betti's text, it sets it free. The melodrama...becomes heroic. Not because, in Betti's somewhat simplistic dramaturgy...
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Le parole del Verbo: twentieth-century Italian literature and Christianity.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Annali d'Italianistica
; ...Catholic playwright of the twentieth century in Italy is Ugo Betti (1892-1953), whose work explores the problematic of...human; good is realizable, but only in transcendence. Betti's obsession with the inevitability of absurd suffering...
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Mini Reviews
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Baltimore's Center Stage) Director Irene Lewis transforms Ugo Betti's middlebrow sub-Pirandellian melodrama into a suspenseful...missing queen the rebels want to kill and assumes the part, Betti means for her to find her "true self." This production...
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La palanca de Polanco. (Jesús Polanco Gutiérrez y Felipe González y la corrupción de la justicia en España)(TT: Polanco's influence) (TA: Jesús Polanco Gutierrez, Felipe González and corruption of justice in Spain)
Magazine article from: Epoca
; Hay una obra del italiano Ugo Betti bajo un ttulo estremecedor y terrible, ttulo que por desgracia parece venir al pelo aqu en estas circunstancias. Se titula la obra de Betti Corrupcin en el palacio de Justicia. Qu pasa en nuestro "palacio...
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Going Out: Theatre Stranded
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...are back with Stranded. Taking Crime on Goat Island by Ugo Betti as its inspiration, the piece explores the consequences of lust. It should help raise Betti's profile over here; in Italy, the judge-turned...
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