Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orchestra had never played the work, and Richter had only one hour's rehearsal with the Philadelphia musicians before going on. But orchestra and soloist sailed through the piece with astonishing rapport, immediately sensed by the audience. "All the time," said Conductor Eugene Ormandy, "electricity was flowing back and forth." Richter gave Prokofiev's tongue-in-cheek score a kaleidoscopic range, resisted the temptation to lushness in the concerto's lyrical passages or to percussive effects in its driving climax. "He tossed it off," said the Philadelphia's awed Concertmaster Jacob Krachmalnick, "like walking through...
...their first joint number, the Choral Society and the Dance Group performed Bach's Guter Hirte, Trost der Deinen. The choreography for two women and a man had little rapport with the Bach, and all by itself was pretty poor. The three dancers did not seem agreed as to the meaning of the simple pastoral dance they were trancing their way through. The Bach was followed by Two Choruses from Alice in Wonderland. The Lobster Quadrille, featuring six girls in red flannel pajamas playing crustacean, was not art but was lots of fun. Father William was charmingly danced by Jane...
...assuming that "his private certitude was everyman's certitude in kind." Modern men, taking him at face value, not only plunged "into his subjective depths"; they also tended to accept his belief that the physical universe is merely a mathematical process devoid of purpose and quality or any rapport with man. "With this abandonment of man's native rapport with the whole, the nerve of worth in his own living and acting silently ceases to function. Here, I venture to think, is the root of our malady. For this is the first principle of human motivation: that...
Most important is the molding effect of the audience/customer. The novelist writes for a small audience with whom he can assume a certain rapport. The contemporary Hollywood film is aimed at everyone--young and old, men and women, educated and illiterate, Americans and foreigners. Hence, in addition to the inevitable "lowest common denominator," is the pressure to dilute material so that it will not offend the tender-minded of any persuasion. The voluntary Production Code which is "not of this world" is the most obvious instance, contributing in part to the idealization of life which has in the past characterized...
Kohler, Wisconsin's three-term former governor, was the narrow victor last month in a bitter, seven-man G.O.P. primary (TIME, Aug. 12). Since then, factional wounds have been healing and Kohler has found allies among the defeated six. But he could establish no such rapport with Latecomer Boyle, an old hand at going after the frontrunner. Last year Boyle jumped into a G.O.P. primary between Senator Alexander Wiley and conservative ex-Congressman Glenn Davis, helped Wiley win by picking off about 5% of Davis' conservative vote. He makes no bones about trying to trip Walter Kohler...