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...PETER DICKINSON 222 pages. Pantheon...
...works of British Mystery Writer Peter Dickinson are like caviar-an acquired taste that can easily lead to addiction. Dickinson, an ex-editor of Punch, does not make much of the process of detection, nor does he specialize in suspense. Instead, he neatly packs his books with such old-fashioned virtues as mood, character and research. The Poison Oracle (1974) is a good example. Set in an imaginary Arab kingdom, it delves into cultural anthropology (desert v. marsh Arabs) as well as fashionable psycholinguistics (in this case, how man communicates with chimpanzee). There is a murder, to be sure, whose...
...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...
...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...