Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Broadway, off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway and then some-remain among the most vigorous in the world. Broadway's lineup now includes A Chorus Line, Equus, Neil Simon's California Suite, Chicago, a revival of My Fair Lady and Julie Harris' one-woman performance as Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst. Tickets can still be obtained for most shows, except A Chorus Line. After 3 p.m. on the day of performance, half-price tickets for many shows may be available at the TKTS booth on Broadway at 47th Street...
...possess." Virginia's Carter Braxton worried similarly about the "democratical" tendencies of New Englanders. Some men in the north, meantime, scorn the southerners for their dependence on slave labor. In all sections, there persists a powerful streak of Toryism. In the Congress itself are men like Pennsylvania's John Dickinson, who, though not a Tory, held out for reconciliation with England, arguing that the break was unnecessary, or at least too sudden...
...plan, known as the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, has been worked out largely by John Dickinson, 43, the London-trained lawyer best known for his anti-Town-shend-taxes "Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer." Though an opponent of American independence, the Pennsylvania conservative soon became the dominant influence on the 13-man drafting committee, which included hardly any radicals other than Samuel Adams of Massachusetts. The document therefore reflects the conservatives' basic desire to organize the 13 disparate colonies under a united national government that would assume the authority once held by London...
Among the chief points in Dickinson's draft...
FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY