Now that we are just a few steps away from deciding on the educational reform project – or so the facts seem to indicate – I feel the impulse, even at the risk of being labeled as simplistic, to insist that the essential point is learning to read correctly, to develop comprehension and, in parallel, speak, write and think better. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: EL LENGUAJE Y SUS COMPLEJIDADES
Cuando se busca con tenacidad y paciencia el origen de obras del arte popular –por ejemplo de teatro, cine o música- suelen surgir, como ángeles de la sorpresa convocados por alguna divinidad escondida, aspectos que van más allá de lo curioso. Continúa leyendo LA AVENTURA DEL TANGO: Monte Criollo
The world of the future will be inextricably linked to the formation of the personality of those who, day by day, awaken to life. That is, those who are born with innate abilities –such as swimming or being amazed at the life they are beginning to discover- and others that will be built according to how they are treated. Continúa leyendo El PENSADOR: TODO EMPIEZA MUY TEMPRANO
En el libro probablemente más breve de su obra poética, Para las seis cuerdas, Jorge Luis Borges creó con espíritu admirativo una serie de personajes épicos, dramáticos, incluso trágicos, caracterizados por el coraje, el desvarío y oscuros aunque leales, como si escribiese la letra de una milonga: entre ellos Jacinto Chiclana y Nicanor Paredes. Continúa leyendo LA AVENTURA DEL TANGO: EL CUCHILLERO
There are problems in Uruguayan society, diagnosed decades ago, which, far from being resolved, become more complex and inconvenient. Perhaps, at least in part, they are expanded by the accelerated complexity of everyday life. That imposed by the rapid progress of problems caused even by important activities -and intrinsically constructive- such as science, technology and education, in addition to others, these pathological, such as social security in a country that sees its population age more than others and where the weakness in the fight against crime and corruption is losing ground, for now without remedy. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: AH, LA JUSTICIA
Hay artistas populares que devienen leyenda en plena actividad y, aun viviendo escaso tiempo, luego de su muerte esa leyenda se agranda y bifurca y nunca deja de aportar nuevos matices, ¿quién puede saber si inventados o no? Continúa leyendo LA AVENTURA DEL TANGO: LA LEYENDA NO CESA
