Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main spark of this intra-House rapport is Housemaster Charles H. Taylor, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History. Since his appointment as Master two years ago, he has improved tutor-student relationships, worked to enliven interest in House activities, and wrecked Hurricane Carol's plan of 1954 to destroy the House courtyard forever. The Kirkland Senior Tutor is Robert M. O'Clair, who has also aided faculty-student integration by his nursing of nascent House dramatic groups...
...inyo that permeates so much of Oriental thinking). In one case: teacher and pupil, guardian and ward, rationalist and emotionalist, etc.; in the other: capitalist and laborer, upper class and lower class, exploiter and exploited, etc. Superb as was Bert Lahr's performance individually last year, the requisite mutual rapport between Gogo and Didi was lacking; and it is this complementary interrelationship that Messrs. Hyman and Moreland now capture so perfectly...
...recalled it, Capote flew up from Hollywood to read a selection ("realistic") from his works. The club was perfectly still in its awe as Capote began, "Grass." The poet waited several minutes, then said, "Green grass." The audience was thrilled. Capote caught their fever, "Green grass growing." Rapport was complete, reader and audience were exhausted with the beauty and strength of the poem, but Capote gathered himself for a final burst, "Blades of green grass growing in a meadow...
...does one get the reputation of a saint in the 20th century? Outside the Roman Catholic Church, where such things are regulated with almost civil-service precision, saintly works are not enough, and miracles are not required. What seems to be necessary is a sort of rapport with the time's intellectual torments, a capacity for drilling and painfully hitting some universal nerve. That, apparently, is the special gift of Simone Weil, a Frenchwoman who died in 1943 at 34 and who has since been informally canonized as a "saint of the churchless," a "patron of the undecided...
...articuate or self conscious about his art. This led Rodman back to the U.S. and Ben Shahn whom he felt in his work answered the questions "How can the popular artist be reconciled with the long history of art? And how can the knowing modernist achieve the primitive's rapport with his own environment? Shahn," says Rodman, "consciously out of a painful apprenticeship to the centuries of Western painting had managed somehow to devise an expert means of simple communication--"Obin (the Haitian) could not tell me why or how he did anything. Shahn a man of commanding intellect, astonishing...