Word: lightly
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...Moniz is also the Director of MIT's Energy Initiative, called MITEI. And he and President Hockfield just showed me some of the extraordinary energy research being conducted at this institute: windows that generate electricity by directing light to solar cells; light-weight, high-power batteries that aren't built, but are grown -- that was neat stuff; engineering viruses to create -- to create batteries; more efficient lighting systems that rely on nanotechnology; innovative engineering that will make it possible for offshore wind power plants to deliver electricity even when the air is still...
...Bosphorus, rustling the leaves of the plane trees in the courtyard of the Tesvikiye Mosque, and causing them to whisper in that soft lovely way I remembered from my childhood.” “Museum” is a thick tome, but such prose feels as light as air. Indeed, the novel as a whole admittedly prioritizes atmosphere over plot, but that aesthetic of melancholy is precisely where Pamuk excels...
...Victoria has staged it brilliantly, in that there are some darker themes that she brings out without losing the light feeling as a whole,” says Lily T. Kass ’10, who plays Ino. And though Eccles’ baroque music remains unchanged (it’s even played using period instruments), for Kass, this does not equal an aesthetic clash. “The music is what gives it its delight,” Kass says. “The music is what gives it its emotion...
...words.” The complementary arias that Semele and Jupiter share, for example, focus the story on their relationship and demonstrate the varied layers of emotion of their characters. This lack of simplistic dichotomies—both in terms of their relationship and in terms of the light and dark mixture as well—is another theme of the production...
...Semele” is an intriguing challenge, simultaneously ancient and contemporary; but the cast and crew hope the interplay between the baroque and the psychedelic, between the light and the dark, will help “Semele” bridge the ages and stand as a uniquely modern opera...