Glauber, who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2005 for work on the basic nature and behavior of light, spoke to a standing-room-only crowd in Harvard's Science Center.
Beautiful, powerful and magnificent, he dazzles, and this show may too when it is more confident of its own rhythms, loses 20 minutes and lets the light speak for itself.
Doing especially fine work in this weirdly flat production are Larry Powell, who plays the associate pastor, and Emily Donahoe, as Jenny, a congregant whose beautiful, light speaking voice does little to disguise her confusion over the pain that Paul has wrought, and the loneliness it has caused his congregation.
Though he acknowledges Augustine's spiritualizing interpretation of light, an interpretation that identifies the light spoken of in Genesis with the creation and activities of the angels, Bonaventure inclines to a more literal interpretation.[25] This means that Bonaventure had to take a position on the contemporary debates on light and its nature.
At times he described the light speaking to him with kindness, and explaining who it was.
Art was the light speaking about the troubles that I was dealing with.
I heard about ten poems about teenage rape; by the end I was like, 'I can't hear any more.'" In this light, spoken word appears more like art as catharsis – more about the act of providing a voice in the first place, rather than creating something unique or challenging with that voice.
Participant 17 described above explained how he had used stimulants to overcome the side effects of antipsychotic medication: "Just the shaking and the way I was in myself, introvert in myself, very light spoken.
This allows him to resurface in febrile flashback, framed by Dennis Parichy's moody lighting, speaking of his early ideals ("I'm leaving because I want to fight") and his subsequent disillusionment.
