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Vol. XXXIV Mundelein College, Chicago 26, 111., Dec. 4,1963 No. 7 THE MAN The era of the new frontier has ceased. For it is not Kennedy the President the country mourns. The man on the street does not wander weak-kneed with tongue thick and knotted because a leader of state was killed. The breath of the nation that was held when the news first broke was not choked for the sake of patriotic reaction. The tears of disbelief shed in the fear that the impossible might be true were not lost in the passing of a diplomat. Kennedy was more than that It is not for Kennedy, the husband and father, that the nation cries. Voices of long- hardened reporters did not crack when he was laid in state because a provider was lost to his family. Students did not stand eight rain-drenched hours to see a widow say good-bye to her mate. Children did not stare in unfidgeting awe because two other children had lost a parent. Kennedy was more than that. It is for Kennedy, the man, the world grieves. For he was the symbol of a young people, a young nation . . . the personifica tion of the American image itself. He was that through which all Americans could identify and citizens of all other countries aspire. He was as strong as the U.S. is strong, as energetic and industrious as it stands energetic, industrious. But he was more than that. The man of great intelligence was em blematic of rising intellectuals around the globe, vital, unresigned, impatient with ways outdated yet held. The pace of the man was the gait of the nation quick, certain, moving ever forward. His warm smile and electric laugh presented Americans as a receptive people, eager to extend a hand. Kennedy, the man, symbolized the very es sence of his country and the very ideal na tions looked to as promise . . . promise of what the free man could achieve. For what he could have done for this country and what this country could have done for the world made him the sign of hope around the sphere. Leader of his country, leader of the world ... he was the forerunner of an epoch now living only in history. It was not Kennedy the President, Kennedy the family man, Kennedy the in tellectual or Kennedy the world leader the globe mourns. He was all that but even more. It was Kennedy the man the per sonification of promise that was the es sence of this generation. The era of the new frontier has died.
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1963-12-04 (1)
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Women and Leadership Archives http://www.luc.edu/wla
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Mundelein College
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Student newspaper for Mundelein College
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Women's education
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English
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Chicago, Illinois
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Mundelein College