Calypso is by far the most effective impediment Odysseus encounters on his journey home to Ithaca, holding him in a sensuous but tedious captivity for seven years, Lotusland revisited.

Feed the fish to the dolphins.

France never experienced a take off of the sort hypothesized by W. W. Rostow — a sudden spurt of output that begins sustained industrial growth.

the priests of an idolatrous religion