After four years in the hourlong format, ''Newshour'' has exceeded the
national ratings level of its half-hour predecessor, the
''MacNeil/Lehrer Report,'' and most of the 324 stations in the public
television system are putting the broadcast on the air, without
strenuous objection. It was not always so. When journalists Robert
MacNeil and Jim Lehrer expanded their nightly news and analysis
broadcast to an hour in 1983, the expanded version was so loathed by
some of the public television stations that the response approached <span><span>
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insurrection. At a public television convention in Seattle three years
ago, one station manager stood up and, in the presence of Mr. MacNeil,
called for a show of hands of those favoring the broadcast's
cancellation. Most in the room voted to chuck it. 'We Know What Real
Hell Is'
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References: New York Times
A nun should be modest, had to have poverty, and pity. Chaucer describes the nun in the opposite way to show us, how the nun Prioress had all the characteristics that a nun should not have. She was a nun modest, well educated and with good manners.
Answer:
It means to disturb "the air." For example, the piercing cries is what the air is being disturbed by, so in general, it was silent when all of a sudden it has become disturbed or interrupted. I think this is a metaphor but I'm not sure.
*sorry if im wrong*
This would be done to present the topic of the book to the reader
Explanation:
The general reason for the use of a prologue or an introduction in any work of art is to present the topic of the book to the reader.
The theme of the book even if it is non fiction would be specific as it is in most of the books so it is better for the reader to have some idea of what they are going to get inside the book from the outset.
This only has to set their expectations in the broadest sense of it and not rally give away much about anything in the actual narrative
