Word: thomasã
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...emotional polygamy. Thomas is married with children to Jutta. He becomes entangled in an extremely serious affair with Veronika, who wants a larger commitment from him, and after years of his double-life, she gives birth to his child. At this point, Schlink begins setting up Thomas??€™ ultimate flaw: obliviousness...
This three-pronged story confidently weaves between Thomas??€™ separate lives, and ultimately the reader has a sense of all three; his fatherly life with Jutta, his identity as an artist and eventually a father with Veronika, and his role as an authority figure with Helga, who treats him with a child-like dependency. Thomas??€™ life becomes highly complex, and he keeps up the charade for no explicit reason, except that he is simply too weak to knock off a couple corners of his triangle. This is most certainly the crux of the story?...
...didn’t know how I’d make my classes that day. On Cambridge’s dark, quiet streets that morning I worried, what have I gotten myself into? But there wasn’t a thing to be done about it (besides, in Terry-Thomas??€™s words, press on). And thinking back now—about all I learned, about the great mix of talented people who walked in and out of that little cave—I’m glad for that...
Denny inspired a rare devotion, gathering around him friends from all different quarters and from every stage of his life. Proof of the deep affection others felt for him was illustrated at his beautiful funeral on Monday, Nov. 26. This service for Denny, held at St. Thomas??€™ Episcopal Church in New York, was matched in grandeur—but unequalled in passion—perhaps only by the grandest of state funerals. Nearly a thousand people gathered there to manifest their high regard and sincere affection for Denny...
...direction of Dorothy A. Fortenberry ’02, Furrow leads the production with her subtle and well-wrought portrayal of Irina, the wide-eyed innocent who slowly loses hold of her dream and sinks into reality. Lehrman, meanwhile, brings a sharp cynicism to Olga that appropriately distinguishes her. Thomas??€™ performance is the least clear of the sisters; in act one, her motivations seem blurred and even lost. Yet, Thomas improves throughout the night and is quite powerful in the final scene, crucially contributing to a well-pitched conclusion...