Word: distress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eventually, they may reveal how more people can be encouraged to leave the crowd and take the crucial first helpful step. Meanwhile, Latane and Darley contend that being aware of these antisocial pressures is the first step toward resisting them. Thus prepared, they contend, "we can choose to see distress and step forward to relieve...
...flag should never be displayed with the union down save as a signal of dire distress." Public...
...page 50 of this issue, TIME'S readers will find an advertisement showing the Stars and Stripes with the union down. But the message is not one of distress. It is, instead, an unusual plea for a generous sort of patriotism. It also offers the little-known story of how and why the Danes have been celebrating our Fourth of July for the past 57 years. The ad is the work of a smallish New York agency, Savitt Tobias Balk, Inc., whose concern in this case is to sell not a product but an idea...
...have been a harmless thing," says Alistair Cooke, a naturalized citizen who for three decades has reported on Americana to his native Britain. "Now it's something of an omen. Some of the flags are carefully pasted upside down-a reminder that the Republic is indeed flying a distress signal...
...moon. The hollerer had to focus his tone sharply, like a diva trying to reach the upper balcony. To do this, some hollerers relied on a yodeling style in which every note was sung twice, a vibrating octave or so apart. A holler could be used to report distress, or good news-the recovery of a sick mule, the completion of spring plowing, the arrival of a circuit minister to give a service the next day. These days, hollerin' has by and large been outdated by modern communications, but it is still cherished-and practiced-by many...