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Industriousness ant works hard to prepare for winter while grasshopper plays. [Gk. Lit.: Aesop’s Fables, “The Ant and the Grasshopper”] perpetually and eagerly active. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 192]
proverbial busyness refers to ceaseless activity of worker bees. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 445] heraldic and verbal symbol. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 193] or grind common metaphor for industriousness. [Pop. Culture: Misc.] symbolic of diligence. [Flower Symbolism: Jobes, 350] works hard for his living. [Nurs. Rhyme: Opie, 309] Aleksey (1905— ) Russian worker who “over-achieved”; increased daily output enormously. [Russ. Hist.: NCE, 2606] builds his house of bricks while his two brothers fritter away their time. [Children’s Lit.: The Three Little Pigs] |
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The United States has not proved the most fertile ground for this sort of person, but now and then contenders arise, and Martha Nussbaum is surely one of the more formidable candidates of our time, discharging the responsibilities of that role with a dizzying industriousness. As Griggs imagines it, the new, post-Civil War United States indeed will be something quite different: a nation that will valorize the intelligence, industriousness, and articulateness of its citizens, white and black, instead of focusing on skin color and corporeal differences. Equally important, these modern and industrial pursuits helped to transform class relations and community ties by disrupting and transforming the upcountry South's rural class hierarchy, which depended less on wealth and occupation than on one's perceived industriousness, one's leadership within the local community, and one's longevity in the local community, to a class hierarchy in which occupation and consumerism determined one's local status. |
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