Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Wayne sidled up to the microphone and drawled, "I am considered a member of the opposition -the loyal opposition, accent the loyal. I'd have it no other way." Carter acknowledged the rapport by throwing Wayne a highball salute. For their second appearance together in 17 years, Mike Nichols and Elaine May did a routine about the first Jewish President. Phoned by his mother and scolded for not having called her, "President" Nichols pleads: "Mother, I was choosing a Cabinet. I didn't have a second." Retorts "Mother" May: "It's always something." Afterward, Miss Lillian...
...entered their home turf," Gordon Atkinson '77, who coordinated the tutoring program said, "They own the place and we had to prove ourselves. Then they accepted us and really related to us." Most tutors reported establishing good relationships with their tutees. "I have rapport with both my kids," Robert Lindsey '78 said. "There's no resentment of me because I'm a Harvard kid, or because I'm white." Roxbury students interviewed seemed to agree. "It was cool," Leroy Adair said. "My tutor let me read some poetry. He didn't try to teach me nothing I didn't want...
...come to regard him as a sort of utility infielder, considered him for several Cabinet-level posts, including Treasury and Defense, before deciding to make him chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Colleagues who have watched Schultze and the President-elect work together are struck by their rapport. Says Joseph Pechman, an informal Carter adviser and a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "When Charlie talks, Carter listens. There's a special chemistry between them...
...Special Rapport. As a few of the experts left the meeting early, Press Secretary Jody Powell joked, "It's an elimination process up there. Every 15 minutes they take a vote, and everybody who gets less than three votes leaves." Some thought they detected a special rapport between Carter and Schultze. Most of those present had frequently been mentioned for top economic jobs in the Carter Administration, although there were a few surprises, notably Duke University Vice President Juanita M. Kreps and Laurence Lynn, professor of public policy at Harvard...
...Terry Knickerbocker as Senex, Hero's lecherous father, delivers his lines in a gutteral huff, and his singing is so stiff as to be wooden. Diane Nabatoff as Domina, his wife, does a generally good job, but is hampered because she and Knickerbocker never seem to develop the right rapport. Jim Pullam brings only braggadocio to his characterization of Miles Gloriosus; it's a tough role to sing, but Pullam can't quite hit the bass notes...