Word: coldâ
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Still boyish-looking at 43, Jack Kennedy has the gemlike qualities?highly polished, but hard and rather cold???sometimes found in men of silver-spoon birth, Ivy League education and high ambition. Once he decided to be a politician, he set for himself the highest possible political goal, the presidency, and he marched toward it with machinelike efficiency. For him, the House and Senate were not so much arenas of action as steppingstones to his goal. In the Senate he was conspicuous not for achievements of legislation or leadership but for youth, good looks, wealth, and the aura he exuded...
...silence was observed with reverential solemnity. Then, thousands of melancholy voices sang the old German hymn: Wir treten zum Beten. As the vibrant notes of the hymn found thundering echoes of grief in thousands of hearts, tears welled, men and women allegedly fainted?not from heat, for it was cold???not from crowd roughness, for there was order?but from grief...