Word: rapport
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OCCASIONALLY DURING a concert an orchestra achieves an emotional rapport with its audience which transcends the notes. Last Saturday night during its last performance of the season, the Bach Society and the Sanders Theatre audience struck a sympathetic chord as they bade farewell to this year's conductor, Neal Stulberg...
Kiely, who publicized the selection via notices to Adams residents, said that Kronauer has demonstrated his capability for the position through rapport with students and activity in House functions...
Early on, Fort said, Patty had been attracted "to the purposes of the S.L.A." He attributed this reaction to her poor rapport with her family, a dissatisfaction with her life with Fiance Steven Weed, and a yearning for excitement. He estimated that she had willingly joined the S.L.A. about six weeks before the robbery of the Hibernia Bank branch in San Francisco on April...
Forty years later a lack of rapport still was noticeable. In 1894 Sir Fred erick Lugard, who was to become Nigeria's first Governor, traveled to an inner principality called Borgu and succeeded in getting two treaties signed in favor of the British Royal Niger Company. As he returned there was a brief skirmish. Lugard reported with the stiffest possible upper lip: "The only casualty in the fighting line was myself, an arrow having penetrated deep into my skull." When he got home, he sustained another grievous wound: the signatures on the treaties were fake...
...rural constituents. "Georgians are conservatives," he later explained, "and I told them that conservatism and racism are not the same thing. We talked about the positive aspects of conservatism: the opposition to big government; the flag, patriotism. We made that pitch hundreds of times. This gave me a rapport with the voters, and it did not remind them or make them think of past deficiencies...