Word: remus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story was not fogged in myth, like that of Romulus and Remus; it occurred in the bright morning sun of the Enlightenment, with a generation of astonishingly literate men in attendance. From a distance of 100 years, Henry Adams, normally a man of elegant bitterness, looked back at that primal national moment: "Stripped for the hardest work, every muscle firm and elastic, every ounce of brain ready for use, and not a trace of superfluous flesh on his nervous and supple body, the American stood in the world a new order...
...this attractive intellectual to bed. Ivan is in no hurry; he charms and tantalizes her with food, wine and graceful erudition. Rather than toss coins in a fountain, he guides her to the Campidoglio to see the caged she-wolf, symbol of the mythical beast that suckled Romulus and Remus. The animal, "glowering from slate-gray eyes that looked at once treacherous and ready to weep," suddenly howls in their faces...