Word: rapport
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...downtown of a city is comfortably inviting. Even your own back yard takes on a new look. There is an instant rapport with the people you meet; there are no intruders or adversaries, only kindred spirits. For a rewarding experience, turn the TV off a little early and set the alarm for 15 minutes before dawn...
...Indeed the Christian concept of grace-never earned, never under man's control-seems to nullify the idea that a man can attain a mystical experience by taking a pill. Psychedelic mystics tend to look toward the Eastern religions, in which, as one puts it, "you rap [have rapport] with the world; you rap with dogs and trees and everything makes sense...
...though it were a person. The boundaries that normally separate things from each other, or from oneself, may be dissolved also. This may cause the impression that one's limbs and torso are liquefying and flowing away (horror!); or that one is in such close rapport with others in the room that one can read their thoughts (love!); or that the barriers of logic have disappeared to reveal a tremendous insight, for instance, that death and life are the same (truth...
That is high rent for a squalid neighborhood, but most of the tenants somehow scrape up the cash. They also take pride in keeping their new oasis tidy: the eight cans a day of "airmail"-garbage hurled out the window-have now shrunk to only one. To earn rapport with tenants accustomed to being disregarded, U.S. Gypsum assigned Salesman Warren Obey as fulltime project manager. "When Warren came here," says longtime tenant Zion R. Paige, "he had three strikes against him. He was white, he was with a big company, and he was telling a story. Everybody around here...
Absolute Privacy. The day is just about gone when police used rubber hoses, explained a defendant's suspicious bruises by claiming that "he fell downstairs," or (in New Orleans) made hydrophobic Negroes talk by suspending them over a lake canal at night. Today, the goal is "rapport" with the "subject." Having discovered psychology, the cops induce "truth" by psyching the suspect...