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In Alfred Kazin's memoir, A Walker in the City , the subway ride from Brownsville to Manhattan "quantified the vast physical and social distance that existed between the Jews of Brooklyn and the 'real' New York."
And they wouldn't have existed as a social group if FDR--who, tragically, died before he got a chance to witness the mainstreaming of rock 'n' roll--hadn't invented them.
Programs were to evaluate whether all programs were working cohesively to assure that urgent clients needs were being addressed; whether sufficient capacities for training and information-sharing existed; whether programs were moving forward on technology; and whether they were collaborating to increase resources and develop new initiatives to expand the scope of their services.
For all the effect it has had on the country's literature, the Times Sunday book section might as well never have existed.
I don't know where Frisby got his material, but he wrote the story before the Thompson committee even existed.