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Outstanding universal value
The personal archives of British author and journalist George Orwell have been
added to the Memory of the World register, the Unesco list of historical docu-
ments with an outstanding universal value. The author’s archives are made up of
the Nineteen Eighty-Four manuscript notebooks, diaries, letters and photographs.
They contain the irst phrasing of the famous slogan from Nineteen Eighty-Four:
“War is Peace. Ignorance is strength. Freedom is slavery.” The University College
London, which was housing the notebooks previously, submitted the application
to Unesco’s selectors. Orwell’s son, Richard Blair, said the award was a clear indi-
cation of the value attached to his father’s work.
outstanding exceptional / to be made up of to be composed of, to feature / Nineteen Eighty-Four (VF) 1984 /
notebook book for taking notes / diary private journal / phrasing wording, formulation / strength force / slavery
system of owning slaves, (working as forced unpaid labour) / to house to accommodate, keep / application oicial
request, proposition / award acceptance of entry.
Ambassador
Best-selling singer Rihanna has been
appointed ambassador for her native
Barbados. Her role includes promoting
education, tourism and investment on the
island. She was given this ambassadorial
position by the government of Barbados,
whose Prime Minister stated: “Rihanna has
a deep love for this country and this is
relected in her philanthropy, especially in
the areas of health and education. She has
also demonstrated, beyond her success as a
pop icon, signiicant creative acumen and
shrewdness in business.” The singer said
that she “couldn’t be more proud” of her
new position.
to appoint to designate, nominate / Barbados
island in the West Indies, capital Bridgetown / to
state to declare / health here medical / acumen
perspicacity, quickness of perception / shrewdness
cleverness, sharpness, intelligence.
Slowing down
Disney CEO Bob Iger has announced that
the production and release of Star Wars
movies will be scaled back. The statement
came after the disappointing box oice
performance of Solo: A Star Wars Story,
which came out in May, only six months
after Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Bob Iger said
that it was “too much, too fast” and that
the company would now be “more careful
about [the] volume and timing” of these
movies.
CEO = Chief Executive Oicer (US), managing director
(GB) / release irst showing (at the cinema) / to
scale back to reduce, here, slow down, postpone
/ statement announcement, declaration /
disappointing unsatisfactory / Star Wars: The Last
Jedi (VF) Star Wars, épisode VIII : Les Derniers Jedi.
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to the movie
A release date has been set for the Downton
Abbey movie, the big-screen installment of
the famous British television drama. It will be
internationally released in September 2019.
Most of the TV principal cast, including Hugh
Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, and Jim Carter,
will star in. And, very much like the TV show,
the movie will follow the lives of the
aristocratic Crawley family and their servants
on their Edwardian country estate.
installment episode / drama here, series / to star to have the principal role in / Edwardian of the years 1901-1910 in
Britain, the reign of Edward VII / country estate property, domain, here, manor house, ancestral home of the nobility.
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