Word: rapport
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...articuate or self conscious about his art. This led Rodman back to the U.S. and Ben Shahn whom he felt in his work answered the questions "How can the popular artist be reconciled with the long history of art? And how can the knowing modernist achieve the primitive's rapport with his own environment? Shahn," says Rodman, "consciously out of a painful apprenticeship to the centuries of Western painting had managed somehow to devise an expert means of simple communication--"Obin (the Haitian) could not tell me why or how he did anything. Shahn a man of commanding intellect, astonishing...
While Herter would be a good choice, Dewey now has a close political rapport with the Republican congressmen, something that would have served Dean Acheson and Dulles very well. Furthermore, his greater administrative experience and prestige outweigh the Massachusetts governor's early experience in foreign relations, experience that centers in the 1920's, for the problems of today are new, and exposure to the diplomacy of then, while helpful, is not vital...
...only a few notes. He speaks his songs, putting them over by subtle changes of pitch and by his timing-which is the envy of the profession. To actors, timing means not only pacing one's words and gestures to make them clear, but also establishing a rhythmic rapport with the audience. A theater audience is an unwieldy mass, and men who can control its feelings as a fly fisherman controls a trout are rare indeed. Rex is still working to dovetail his acting with the reactions of the audience, changes something in every performance. "The writer or director...
...search for philosophical stability which came in an age so recently disillusioned, the story is seldom real. Wander through it with an admiration for the man's mind, a sense of having done little where he has done much, but you will not in all probability find any rapport. While the story is not typical of those born at the turn of the century, (as he suggests, he "has always been a converted Pagan living among apostate puritans,") it has certainly many familiar threads for men of his temper and background. But for me, it is only a strange alien...
Before a student is graduated from the School, Dean Horton said he or she "must come into at least slight contact with all of the major disciplines and the fullest possible rapport with the humanities...