Word: rapport
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SFAC drew the public eye on the Faculty and surfaced people for committee posts who had otherwise been left out. Men like Rogers Albritton, professor of Philosophy, and Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science-Faculty liberals who shared great rapport with their students-had been on the Faculty for 19 and 11 years respectively, and never been appointed to major committee positions...
EVEN if he manages to restore peace within his official family, President Nixon may be unable to re-establish rapport with the U.S. Senate. Relations between the White House and the Upper House, already strained by the Supreme Court nomination fights, are turning ever more bitter over Indochina. Increasingly, Administration spokesmen are simply not believed...
...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
...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...