Word: kalypso
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...moderator of the panel, Kalypso Nicoladis, an assistant professor of public policy at KSG, called "US Foreign Policy, NATO, International Law and the War in Yugoslavia" a "rather biased" presentation...
...first attested reading period in Western literature occurs in Homer's Odyssey, where Odysseus, is kept on Kalypso's island in preparation for his upcoming examination. This is one of the more idyllic reading periods in literature. We can see that it was not always cold and heartless during reading period in the following passage, where Hermes comes to tell Kalypso it's time for Odysseus's exam period to begin...
Modern scholars have noted one important detail here: the parallel between Kalypso's loom and the loom of Penelope, roughly corresponding to the grade on a paper and the grade on the final exam, respectively. There are two interpretations of the water: either it is Odysseus's exam, which he will overcome only with the help of Leukothea's magic veil (corresponding to present-day crib notes), or it is a symbol of Odysseus's knowledge, and thus the source of his consternation, "barren...
...Kalypso," a poem by Joseph Trum bull Stickney, is an ambitious effort. It is, however, a failure, because sense is sacrificed to form. The cadences of the metre are exquisitely melodious. This extract is characteristic...
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