Abstract

COMMENTARIES 3 15 port, when everything clicks, everything seems suspended in hope that they will be able to keep their eyes on the magic as time, and everything for that moment is perfect. This would they pursue the mundane and grubby details of the analytic be a suitable endpiece for the authors to aim for and, if that variables and their data. ideal conception can be kept in mind, it would keep the focus directly on the excellent value system that initially stimulated Note this research. In certain respects, the concept of the magical moment of Clyde Hendrick, Department of Psychology, Texas Tech rapport is very much like the magical sunset. In western skies University, Lubbock, TX 79409. most of the sunsets look fine, but once in a great while there is one that is just perfect. Most of the variables remain the References same, but some few shift ever so slightly, such as the amount of dust or moisture in the air, leading to a magical sunset that Goffman, E. (1961). Encounters: Two studies in the sociology of interac- is of unsurpassed glory for the human spirit. 1 think that the tion. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. notion of rapport ultimately