Word: cowboying
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...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...
...American soldier, England is a stopping place on the long road home through Fortress Europe. The drugstore cowboy has a native instinct for the busiest corner. When he can he makes for London. There he and his buddies fill the subways, the busses, the cabs, the theaters, the pubs and hotel bars. In astonishing numbers they go to gawk through the iron fence at Buckingham Palace in the hope of seeing the King. Says a cockney, also gawking: "He's a decent bloke, you know. Works hard. I wouldn't have his job." Says G.I. Joe: "Yeah...
...from beating it, and I've climbed more trees than a lumberjack. My lines have read like a backward two-year-old talking to his nurse." His program of dress reform, in order of his new movie costumes: 1) a Marine combat-correspondent's uniform, 2) a cowboy outfit, 3) a business suit, 4) perhaps, eventually, evening dress...
...turn a flinty corner they fill the night with sparks. The old shotgun feuds keep going and the rattle of musketry at dawn is just "my folks and his'n . . . exchangin' good mornin's acrost the river." Oldest Inhabitant Grandpappy Sears dresses comfortably in nothing but cowboy boots and a suit of heavy underwear. He likes to eat in Gus Popupolis' restaurant, whose sign reads: WHERE GREEK FEEDS GREEK. Hackberry has annual huntin', shootin' and bird-dog competitions. When there's a wood-cutting contest the Hackberry Courier likes to announce that...
...Cowboy stuff with a European accent, "Tartu" is a good presentation of the way the war is probably not being won, but it's still a satisfying evening's entertainment...