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...TIME FOR GREATNESS-Herbert Agar-Little, Brown...
...Herbert Agar is not afraid to deliver a sermon. A Time for Greatness is a 300-page editorial on democracy that has the fervor and some of the moral reach of the Old Testament prophets. Two quotations set the framework of Agar's thinking...
Young Man's Return. In the '30s, Herbert Sebastian Agar, poet, playwright, columnist and editor, returned from London to the U.S. disgusted with the aftermath of World War I, feeling that there was little in Europe worth fighting for. So he concentrated on U.S. domestic problems. In 1934 he won the Pulitzer prize for history with The People's Choice, a study of U.S. Presidents. Other books followed, but with the approach of World War II Agar began to feel that the U.S. had an important stake in world affairs...
Said Editor Herbert Agar, in his new book (A Time for Greatness; Little, Brown; $2.50): ''Our Government as we are now conducting it is not good enough. This is no day to permit expensive travesties of democracy. The people demand simplicity and openness and highmindedness. They are given 'politics as usual.' They ask for the bread of a true democracy, and they are given a stone which is not only inedible but moldy...
...Other Agricultural Department chemists revealed new wartime medicinal uses for pectin, the chemical in apples which makes jelly jell. Working on Navy orders the chemists discovered: 1) pectin paste and tannic acid is a natural for battle burns; 2) pectin is a good stand-in for Jap-controlled agar-agar, intestinal lubricant...