Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reporters organized themselves in February "to promote quality journalism," held some 20 meetings in their homes and exchanged thoughts one Saturday morning at the press club with Tribune President John Cowles Jr., Executive Editor Bower Hawthorne and Managing Editor Wallace Allen. Cowles agreed that the paper needed more rapport with young readers, though he challenged one reporter's notion that Bob Dylan is as important to this generation as Charles Lindbergh was to his. Other results: follow-up discussions between top editors and individual staffers, and a questionnaire from Allen seeking details of specific complaints...
...private, Jackson expounds his opinions forcefully in public. He does not arouse a crowd as readily as King did, but he employs cadence, sweeping hand gestures, a penetrating gaze and abrupt changes in volume to command attention. He deliberately mangles grammar and throws in mild profanity to develop rapport with audiences. He is hopelessly addicted to preacherly metaphors, some effectively illuminating, others either mystifying or inept. "We need leadership," he likes to say, "not leaders. The ship is what's important because
...standards. And they will have to be more diplomatic. "There are some policemen today." Powers explained, "who will see a group of kids congregating on a street corner, and will go up to them and say 'Get the fuck off the cornerl'All this does is destroy any rapport the police might have with these kids, and in areas like that around Harvard Square, it would be disastrous. Others would be gentle, but firm, with the kids. Through education and training programs, we have to make sure that something like the first case never happens...
...Tarr, 45, fit the Administration's specifications that the only wonder is why it took so long and required so much fumbling before the word was given. The former president (1963-69) of Wisconsin's Lawrence University, a school respected for its academic standing, Tarr can claim rapport with the young and considerable sympathy for their problems. While his own children will probably never have to worry about the draft -he has two daughters, twelve and eleven-Tarr as president of a small university knew firsthand the anguish the draft can cause. "I think I can talk with...
When Weiland benched Steve Owen and Dan DeMichele without telling them, and sent a manager to give the message instead, it was as much an indication of lack of rapport with the captain as anything else. This must not, and will not happen next year. If only for the sake of this year's freshmen, who are used to a cohesive team spirit after playing for Billy Cleary, the varsity should stay together emotionally...