Word: blyth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eiseley's most significant accomplishment, though, is to rediscover another English naturalist named Edward Blyth, who as early as 1835 set forth the tenets of what later became known as the the ory of natural selection. Darwin, Eiseley argues persuasively, was more than just a little familiar with Blyth's work, and even quoted from one of his papers. But Darwin never publicly acknowledged, let alone discharged, his debt to Blyth, and history has been no kinder. Eiseley's ex pose in no way diminishes Charles Dar win's importance, but it does help ex plain...
...deal with Western executives, and vice versa. He knows the Saudis about as well as any Westerner can. He ranges far from his elegant London offices, where he has been the international chief for a series of American banks: initially Manufacturers Hanover, then First Boston, now Blyth Eastman Dillon−INA. He is one of those multinational deal makers who live in Concordes, four-star hotels and mahogany-walled counting houses. He always rides a crest in good times and bad, making money −much money−despite a few sour deals among all the bonanzas...
...have been rough on women who grew up in the '50s. Take the heroine of Myrna Blyth's fine new novel...
...Blyth is a witty, often hilarious writer, and few have written more tellingly about the avian world of women's magazines. But For Better and for Worse is only half comic. The other half is a sharp, unblinking look at the ways of men and women, shorn of doctrinaire feminism...
There are no heroes or heroines, Blyth seems to be saying, just people, doing unto others what they would not have others do unto them. - Gerald Clarke