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Dead concerts, once a revered institution, underwent similar changes. The fabled rapport between the group and there fans (and Owsley) was no longer in evidence. Jerry Garcia once said, "The perfect Dead concert would be one in which everyone is onstage playing." (That, I would suggest, is much more to the heart of the notion of "Art for the People" than free, passive enjoyment of the creative efforts of a few.) Unfortunately, the People made the band into unreachable objects of adulation. They were heroes of the media, the center of as much creative energy as applause can ever represent...
Five men spent nine months picking Derek Bok from the array of contestants and, by their own admissions, there wasn't even a first runner-up. He won prizes in every category-talent congeniality, primary academic commitment, administration, scholarship, student rapport. He's even supposed to be a close friend of Kingman Brewster. His name bubbled forth from an original list of 1200 people, and not just people but eminences, names, People. John Gardner, Elliot Richardson, Mac Bundy, John Lindsay, step aside, meet Derek C. Bok, Harvard's answer to the question that's on everybody's lips...
...seat for the first time. The outcome of the talks could well be shaped by how well Larry and his relatively untested team relate to the union chiefs. Steelmen remember that management's bargaining team in 1959 was also unseasoned, and its failure to reach a rapport with union men was a prime cause of the 116-day strike that year...
...THINK I'd like to see more rapport between older black writers and younger black writers. I think the publishing industry has had us in such a bag-you know, we're gonna give you this as an advance, but you don't tell lob how much you got cause we didn't give him this much. And the critics like Jimmy Baldwin, but they hate Ernie Gaines, and it'd be a disaster if them two cats got together. And all the rest of that, which is nonsense. I mean, you view the white literary establishment: Styron, Roth...
...person protagonist. The pseudonym was eventually carried over to a monthly detective-story magazine, a long-lived radio program and a television series. All told, including short-story anthologies, Ellery Queen enjoyed book sales of 125 million. Keeping their writing methods a Queenlike mystery, Lee and Dannay developed such rapport that they were able to confound and amuse interviewers by completing each other's sentences...