Word: rapport
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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...
...entertainment, vaudeville, which had made the show. Yes, the program contained lively music, and a captivating, even heroic, effort from Joe Masiell, but its recreation of a past era was what set it apart. For those in the audience who remembered vaudeville--The Palace, the lonely spotlight, that special rapport between individual performer and audience--this production brought all the images back. For those who post-date the vaudeville era it was a glimpse backward...
...slid a scribbled note across the table to Presidential Aide Hamilton Jordan. The euphoric message: "This is a historic meeting. You are witnessing the takeoff of Sino-American relations." Another White House aide said of Carter and Teng: "It's impossible to exaggerate the significance of their personal rapport. There's a feel to the relationship that will set the tone for the future...
...season long there had been whispers that popular first year coach Buddy Mahar was too easy going and, if anything, had a little too much rapport with his players. Mahar must have reached the same conclusion because he decided to crack down. He benched Byrd, Davie Fields and Free who had started every game for the last three years, for the first 11:49 of the Yale game. The trio was benched because they had been six minutes late to a team meeting earlier...