Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like to give public readings. One very seldom achieves the proper rapport with the audience. You can tell in ten minutes, you know, if an audience is responding. When I emerged on the stage at Chicago University, it was like an arctic blast." But, he amended, it's something everyone should...
...kitten appears to follow Helga out of the room, and by his cinematic control the director turns the kitten into a pure manifesation of the faltering yet beautiful spirit of the girl. And the symbol of the bridges itself is handled superbly. The first bridge is love, the rapport of one individual with another; the rest are humanitarian honor, the responsibility towards mankind of one who is not an island...
...fascinating in terms of his life as in regard to his work. Rouault, too, maintained a constant and intensive vision throughout his career, but the difference in temperament here is immense. Maillol, working until 1944 with a turn-of-the-century ardor, seemed to exist in a rapport with nature usually thought of in connection with the highest days of Greece. His sculpture is at once sophisticated and naive. In this sense it represents civilized man at his most refined and inspired, completely without artifice and without the vaguest notion of what corruption is all about...
...conductor is John Harbison '60, a former violinist and trombonist in the orchestra. Harbison is an excellent musician, and when he and the orchestra gain more rapport with each other, as they did only occasionally last night, many of the minor imperfections of the first concert will disappear. He needs much more assurance, and is at present far too restrained, especially in making sudden contrasts and shaping phrases...
Although Cambridge police generally attempt to be sympathetic to student problems, rapport between them and well-intentioned students has deteriorated because of inability of students to be properly informed regarding regulations; failure of city administrative authorities to properly post existing ordinances or to amend signs so as to conform with latest amendments; and drafting of ordinances in such a way as to prove misleading when combined with improper posting...