Word: athertone
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...come very close to making Theresa into a harlot, but he also transforms the men into brutish stereotypes. The heroine's father (Richard Kiley) and first lover (Alan Feinstein) are far less sympathetically drawn than they were in the novel. Theresa's one appealing suitor (William Atherton), whose sweetness should leaven the story, becomes as cruel as the rest. Only the Italian stud Tony, played with magnetic ferocity by Richard Gere, seems remotely human...
Lilliam Hellman, the well-known playwright and author, who was blacklisted in the '50s for suspected ties with the Communist Party, has been selected by South House as this fall's Atherton Lecturer...
Harvard established the lectureship in 1966 at the bequest of Frederic W. Atherton, a Harvard graduate, to "bring to the University, annually, distinguished lecturers concerned with ethical subjects or topics relating to ethical or social criticism...
...John Sparkman, Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, wrote a careful letter of "support" to Carter, which nevertheless reminded him of the U.S. commitment to Israel's security and endorsed the idea of a nonimposed settlement. The State Department message, insisted Assistant Secretary Alfred Atherton, was "certainly not intended as a threat of any sort" to Israel. At his press conference Carter declared a Washington moratorium on any "additional comments on specifics" about the Middle East until Begin's visit, adding a promise that the Israeli Premier would be received warmly. Begin himself denied...
...pitifully few sub-plots involved two lovers, played by Macaire Henderson and Scott Atherton. Henderson brings a fine voice and strong stage presence to the show, while Atherton only manages to look ill-at-ease...