Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Good Rapport. In the early '50s Korff became what he calls "a smalltown rabbi" while living in Rehoboth, Mass. Last summer, after his retirement (he suffers from a heart ailment), Korff determined to counter what he considered unfair attacks on Nixon. Starting with $1,000 that he had put aside for his and his wife's vacation, the rabbi began soliciting contributions and taking out ads supporting the President in some 25 newspapers round the country. Korff claims that his committee now has a membership of 2 million Americans who have given $1,000,000 to the cause...
...President and the rabbi seem to have developed a good rapport. At one point, the rabbi says, he told the President: "Had I been you, I would have made a bonfire and burned the tapes." Nixon's reply: "Where were you eight months...
...hopes to work with the handicapped and believes that his blindness will aid him in establishing an unusual rapport with his patients. "A handicapped Viet Nam veteran might wonder how a blind doctor could relate to his experiences in battle," he explains. "Well, maybe I have had some similar experiences in Philadelphia, just crossing Broad Street...
...Mort Shuman. I'm not sure whether the strength of the lyrics is more properly attributed to their translation or to Brel himself. Perhaps both. A strand of bitterness runs through the songs, and a singer tells us, "Jacques Brel is bitter, but that's because he's in rapport with the world...
...lyrics are so good and his use of music is so brilliant that by the end of the show we are ready to respect anything he tells us. The small size of the Cabaret, the low ceilings, and the nightclub atmosphere have helped to create a good audience-performer rapport, and the singers have sung as if they were confiding in us and letting us share their frustrations. So when Brel's tone shifts from despair to hope in the final song, and the performers walk on stage holding hands and quietly singing "If We Only Had Love...