Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...praised for their supposed lack of patience, the basic assumption is probably wrong-just another of those monumental cliches about the U.S. character that clutter the intellectual landscape. While Job is not exactly a national hero, there is every evidence that-below the surface-Americans are an exceptionally patient people, and becoming more...
...dawn of science and the rise of the merchant middle class changed the very meaning of patience. Observing, recording, experimenting-patiently piling their slow-baked bricks of knowledge into steps leading upward toward freedom and control of nature-the pioneers of science began to give patience a positive ring, a means to hope within the here and now. At the same time, the capitalists, gradually replacing the aristocracy at the top of society, were demonstrating what the patient, longview investment and reinvestment of money could do to liberate men from the conditions they were born to. Patience was no longer...
...probably in the fields of science and business that American patience is most familiar. The folk hero of American tinkerers remains Thomas A. Edison, who prescribed "stick-to-itiveness" as one of the prime requisites for achievement. More sophisticated researchers have kept alive the tradition of the patient scientist. Luther Burbank spent 16 years developing an edible cactus for cattle, and during his experiments, by his own estimate, had a million spines painfully pierce his skin. Dr. Selman A. Waksman and his researchers spent four years analyzing 100,000 soil microorganisms before isolating streptomycin. Today, the legendary, lonely experimenter...
...Milan shopkeeper ("On Sept. 21 at half-past eleven," the novelist noted in his journal, "I won the victory I had so long desired") might appear something of a waste of time. American lovers are usually accused not only of wanting to win but of not exploiting their victories patiently enough-perhaps in part misguided by Kinsey, who equated rapid-fire lovemaking with superior virility. But lately a whole library of sex manuals has been telling the American male that he must be patient-and he may be paying attention...
...their dash, U.S. generals appreciate slow, painstaking preparation and careful strategy in the tradition of Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator ("The Delayer"). After Pearl Harbor, when Admiral Chester Nimitz was rebuilding the US. Navy, he invariably fended off action-hungry critics with the Hawaiian phrase Hoomana wa nui (Be patient...