Word: florian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where Christian knights knelt in prayer before setting out on the Fourth Crusade. Not far away, American tourists surveyed the vaulted arches whose proud occupants once presided over Medieval Europe's richest and most powerful city-state. More leisurely visitors sipped wine in the chiaroscuro atmosphere of the Florian Café, where modern expatriates from Ezra Pound to Peggy Guggenheim have gathered to talk. Almost everyone, some time during his visit, found time to marvel at the frescoes of Titian and Tintoretto, the sculpture of Rizzo and Verocchio, and the majestic bell towers and loggia of Buon and Sansovino...
...FLORIAN VON IMHOF...
...murders revolve around the book's two other supersymbols. The first is Lily, a flawless Aryan beauty who represents the unobtainable goal that drives idealists mad and causes them to commit atrocities in her name. Florian, her cynical panderer, is Brother Death himself. Lily's problem is that she is a nymphomaniac who is unable to achieve orgasm. Florian brings her an endless string of ardent customers whom he kills while they are trying vainly to satisfy the great ideal...
...insures the insurance companies-more than 1,000 of them are its clients-by accepting part of their liability for claims arising from natural catastrophe or human accident. On the broad marble staircase of the company's châteauesque lakeside headquarters stands a baroque statue of St. Florian, who is regarded as a protector against natural disasters. Says Matthew Klaas, 63, one of Swiss Re's two general managers: "Last year St. Florian let us down...
...staff of a dozen full-time and part-time correspondents ranged wide over the vast expanses of Brazil, conducted 150 interviews from the chief of the President's Cabinet to his schoolteachers. Following the President around Brazil, De Carvalho was on hand in the town of Florianópolis one morning at 6:30 when Quadros emerged for a busy day, looked at the reporter, and asked in some astonishment: "You here already?" Before his task was completed, De Carvalho had sent to New York a report that exceeded a massive 85,000 words...