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HOWARD W. RAPPORT Chicago...
...carried this in with me and found it invaluable in establishing what ethnologists like to call rapport. The Lacandons were obviously curious about the land from which we came, and we showed them the pictures and tried to explain them. In return they gave us the information we needed. ... As a parting gift we left several items which they had esteemed highly; namely, a pair of blue jeans, two bars of soap, and the battered copy of TIME...
...Rapport. In Johnson City, Tenn., police found an empty auto standing at a red light with its motor running. They ultimately learned the answer: the driver and his wife, he bound for work, she for a shopping trip, both in a hurry, had simultaneously dashed from the car by opposite doors, each sure the other had stayed to drive...
Horowitz has been able to achieve much more rapport with his great father-in-law. Toscanini has given him brilliant support in two of the most bravura concerto recordings ever made: the Tchaikovsky Concerto (a fabulous best-seller), and the B Flat Major Concerto of Brahms...
Painter Dali is sagely serious about his work. Says he, in some of his more glutinous prose: ". . . my aim was to establish a rapport of fatality between each of the different personalities ... in a manner which . . . constitutes the sum of the mediumistic and iconographic volume that each person represented was capable of releasing in my mind...