Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...director, Scott is equally extraordinary. Movement on the long oblong stage of the Circle in the Square/Joseph E. Levine Theater requires something like traffic control to keep the actors from drifting out of rapport with the audience. With the aid of Thomas Skelton's spotlighting, Scott concentrates the focus and heightens the emotional pitch of the play. Its theme comes across with blinding clarity - failure is the only sin Americans will not forgive. And Miller's language, often criticized as pedestrian, has been scoured to spareness since 1949. All in all, a redoubtable revival of a masterwork...
Howard F. Gillette, assistant to Peterson, credits the "rapport" within the alumni affairs organization to the "excellent communications" Peterson maintains with Bok. "It was an important move to place Peterson at the vice presidential level." Gillette says, "because it assured that the recommendations of the staff and the concerns of the alumni would be communicated...
Charles J. Prenner, assistant professor of Computer Science on the McKay Endowment and Bossert's replacement in Natural Sciences 110 this year, said yesterday that Bossert is "a popular teacher who has an excellent rapport with students...
...going places--JLW is the closest thing to a Boston group that you always feel you might be seeing in intimate circumstances for the last time. But sometimes I think that because they're basically a beer, bar and good-time band, fit for small places and close rapport, they'll stay in that closed circle--in which case Cambridge is still like Berkeley, where you can check into a club and see Garcia and Saunders or Asleep at the Wheel on a Tuesday night with nothing to do. But no matter, Wright and the Boys are the finest country...
...interplay between the patient and doctor--who seems to be no more than a vehicle for exposing Jackson's story to the audience. Jackson offers an incident or impression and the doctor probes until we have learned the significance. From such an intense, personal conversation we would expect some rapport to develop between the men, but the only development in the play is that the story becomes more complete and meaningful as Jackson keeps talking...