Word: patterns
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...paragon who is right and true all the time. But we do have plenty of people with heroic passages in their life, who bravely shatter a limitation or convention and open up new possibilities in the life of others. As we at TIME selected our heroes, we found a pattern: the ones who changed society the most were those who liberated a segment of humanity that had been fenced in by prejudice. Jackie Robinson broke the color line in baseball; Helen Keller demolished old notions about the blind and deaf; and Harvey Milk dared to put himself on the ballot...
...century. In Britain, so proud to claim "the Mother of Parliaments," universal suffrage--including women's--was granted only in the year of her death, 1928. Mrs. Pankhurst was born a Victorian Englishwoman, but she shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back...
Part of a Pattern...
...Equal' education may in fact create inequality of women because of the inherent differences in the life styles of men and women. No matter how optimistic a woman student...may be, her life pattern is apt to include 10 to 20 years...rearing a family," read a preliminary statement issued by the Committee on Recommendations to the President...
...well be that the legacy left byHarvard's first non-entity president of the 20thcentury will be a pattern of leaders just likehim...