Word: rapport
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...have no real rapport with the 'workers,' in fact I actively detest them en masse. They grumble and strike and behave abominably while their very existence is made possible by sailors and merchant seamen who get a quarter or less than a quarter of what they...
...that I would not give to Sadat or to him any official U.S. proposals without discussing the unofficial drafts first with both sides. Begin insisted repeatedly that the Israelis see any American proposal before it was presented to Sadat. I spelled out to Begin the advantages of a good rapport between him and Sadat. Yet for the last ten days of negotiation, the two never spoke, although their cottages were only about 100 yards apart...
...addition to the course's "elaborate investment in teaching materials" including the special readings workbook--Eckstein attributes the course's popularity to "a very good collection of section leaders who have a very good rapport with the students...
...sensitive dialogue suffused with consequence. One young white says, "It's like they separate themselves from us." A graduate student argues, "The blacks on campus permit tokenism, and the whites promote it." A black teacher observes, "For many whites and blacks, rapport is not a natural thing. People have to learn it." And so the litany goes...
...Keeping On. "There were two main differences between New Orleans and the rest of the country. People danced more and danced looser there. And people had a rapport with the music. They wouldn't like it if you just played one thing. You had to give them everything. It isn't that way now. I won't ever go into the French Quarter any more. You can walk to all the clubs and hear maybe two good bands. It's like all the guys that are coming up now gotta go further and further...