Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hearing the concert Tuesday night was like listening to a new orchestra. With a few exceptions, the members of the Boston Symphony are French, and now they have a French conductor. The "rapport" thus created resulted in a sound totally different from that made by the same musicians under Serge Koussevitzky...
Harvard apparently loves the National Student Association. At any rate, it gives NSA over $1000 a year to maintain rapport with student organizations all over the nation and to whip up schemes like the DP program and the purchase card plan. Whether it likes the idea or not--and a segment of the paying population inevitably doesn't--Harvard is securely wedded...
...seven-man, no-horse squad, reorganized last fall to revive the sport of kings at Harvard, was forced to arrange an all-away schedule, with opponents who were willing to supply nags on both sides of the table. Mainly as a result of the difficulty in establishing a temporary rapport during game-time with shy, suspicious horses loaned by their antagonists, and of their grounded condition at all other times, the Crimson riders dropped five of their six contests, winning only from Yale's second string...
...stance to an audience that might have been hostile: members of Advanced Management and Labor Policy Seminars together with curious Business School onlookers. They peppered Reuther with questions on specific petty gimmicks of UAW policy. The Red Head simply cocked jauntily backward and the Redhead triumphantly established a controlling rapport. "Walter's learned not to get mad at them," remarked a Nieman Fellow who has long covered labor in the Midwest...
HOWARD W. RAPPORT Chicago...