Word: rapport
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...Sanjuro, no such rapport develops. As a result of Kurosawa's more superficial treatment of his story, Mifune's exertions remain extraneous, and no real moral conflict is ever engaged...
...Better Rapport. Churches occasionally are reluctant to accept older ministers, concerned that they may be ready to retire by the time they have mastered their new profession. In the 1964 entering class at Maine's Bangor Theological Seminary, a school that specializes in training men with "delayed vocations," one student was in his 60s, another was 52. Yet nonclerical experience often gives these men a rapport with their congregations that ministers straight out of college cannot have. Methodist Preacher Russ Kemmerer, 33, a moderately successful pitcher in the major leagues for nine years-mostly with the Boston...
Numerous conciliatory and liaison bodies have sprung up as a salve for all this agitation. Student groups for "university reform" have appeared at Illinois State, Michigan State, Farleigh Dickenson, and several West Virginia colleges. Faculty-student groups organized for "rapport" between the factions have been established at the University of Utah, Florida State, and Midland College in Nebraska...
...services of Novak's book is its recollection of what seems scarcely credible today, the rapport that existed between Rockefeller and Goldwater before May, 1963. Rockefeller had been active and not unsuccessful in wooing conservatives by stressing areas of Republican agreement. That meant, of course, using the standard Republican lines about the menace of communism, the menace of budget deficits, and so forth. Rockefeller as well as Goldwater helped confirm bedrock Republican's picture of a world gone wrong, of national leaders departing from the Americanism that made our country free and strong...
Though they have so far been largely excluded from management policy decisions, the men who run computer operations eventually are bound to have a bigger voice in business. Who else will understand the beasts? "There will be a small, almost separate society of people in rapport with the advanced computers," predicts Donald M. Michael, a social psychologist at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington. "They will have established a relationship with their machines that cannot be shared with the average man. Those with talent for the work will have to develop it from childhood and will be trained...