Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...task. Strauss, whose father-in-law founded the Texas chapter of the American Jewish Committee, had hitherto been known primarily as a highly effective back-room pol. His arm-twisting skill in negotiating a new pact that lowered tariffs between the U.S. and its major trading partners and his rapport with the President seem to have weighed more heavily with Carter than Strauss's uncertain knowledge of Middle Eastern realities. Says an Administration official: "The object was to get a guy in there who could speak with the authority of the President, so that Carter won't have...
...conviction is another matter. For it is clear that the Faculty, not the students, benefitted the most from the April uprising, not by Machiavellian planning, but simply through increased access to power. With the Faculty Council, a reorganized bureaucratic structure, a new president who maintains a considerably warmer rapport with Faculty members, and a greater voice in its own, and the University's affairs, the Faculty achieved a quiet revolution. Of course, the question of whether students will remain content with keeping their own voices subdued remains a serious question that Harvard continues to face...
...believe that it's my due to be made an example of in such an unnecessary and insensitive fashion, to be the recipient of gratuitous history lessons. And possessed of a formidable memory, I have absolutely no difficulty recollecting that I am black. Her expressions of magnanimity and alleged rapport enraged me. Moment by moment as she alienated me, I kelpt trying to keep in mind her wonderful stories and beautiful words, the reason I had come in the first place. Mine hadn't been the common confusion of the narrators and the writer's identities, but I had assumed...
Some players developed personality conflicts with Moses. This happens on many teams at Harvard, but squash is an individual sport and requires the rapport necessary for solid student-teacher relationships. Beyond that, many of the players felt Moses simply did not possess the fundamental teaching skills...
...forced to take a sojourn along the Ohio, and I was struck by how true-to-life the scenes in the steel mills are. Those people, though, do not sound like steel workers--they sound like transplanted New Yorkers, and they keep trying to work up a "rapport," you know? A rapport with each other to make us think they're life-long buddies. A rhythm very influenced by Mean Streets. Bogus. DeNiro, though, is marvelous--that studied inarticulateness. DeNiro's got all the equipment to be a great stage actor--he can use his voice, if you remember...