Word: aschenbach
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...before) with little left but his literary allusions. Encrusted with irony, hobbled by a pedagogue's inability to face life except in terms of art, Soby nevertheless fancies himself a secret worshiper of the wisdom of the body-for him symbolized by the bacchic visions that lured Gustav Aschenbach, the aging hero of Thomas Mann's famous novella, Death in Venice, to a debasing but idyllic passion for a beautiful young...
...achieve his own aging heart's desire (which soon turns out to be Miss Throop's 17-year-old niece), Soby endures, besides the company of these two ladies, all manner of other trials. He tears around the Mediterranean to rescue an old tomcat (symbolically named Aschenbach...
...team is going into the game with set jaws, and with determination stamped on the faces of the men to beat Harvard," Cyril Aschenbach, captain of last year's Dartmouth team told an enthusiastic mass meeting of 1200 cheering Dartmouth undergraduates and alumni at the Boston City Club last night...
...members of the coaching staff are not as confident as you," Captain Aschenbach continued. "In Harvard we have a worthy opponent. Let us analyze the situation. Harvard's team is better than last year. Of that we have no doubt. This year Dartmouth had five letter men back. It has been a terrific job for the coaches to work this into an efficient football machine. But we may be sure that the Dartmouth team which faces Harvard tomorrow, will be a better team than that which faced Yale last week...
...Aschenbach went on to say that very few of the Alumni were making any effort to encourage good athletic material to come to Dartmouth. "We coaches cannot develop a good football team without material. It is up to all of us to bring men to Dartmouth, who will develop into good football...