Word: huaso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intentions toward making a better world which the Anglo-Saxons had communicated to me have wasted away, dissolved, day by day disappeared after contact with everything here: the people, the way of life, the climate, the food, the skepticism, the sun, the mountains. Nobody believes in anything. The crafty huaso [the Chilean cowboy] who distrusts everything and everybody is today the Chilean type...
...like himself, dry and sharp. He is married to a German-Chilean, Marta Ide Perera of the artistic Ide family, has a quiet, formal home life. He disapproved his three sons' music lessons lest culture should sissify them. For himself, he has preferred the wild horsemanship of el huaso, the Chilean cowboy...
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