Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parents and her other brother, Eteokles, who had followed Oedipus to the throne. But because Polynices raised an army and attacked his own homeland and brother, the new king of the city, Creon refuses to allow her to bury the traitor. Creon, their uncle, wants the dead Polynices torn apart by wild dogs...
Books have been falling apart since paper was invented, but it was only about eight years ago that librarians--both at Harvard and across the country--realized the extent of the problem. The catalyst was a study conducted by the Library of Congress which revealed that one-third of books in the national archives were decaying...
Books which are not in such bad shape are sent to either an in-house or a commercial bindery, depending on just how badly they are falling apart. Acid-free containers, known as "phase boxes," are also used in order to preserve the integrity of the book...
...talking about our cultural heritage falling apart, and we're not going to be able to save all of it," says Meredith...
Although Houghton is doing a lot of microfilming, other techniques of preservation are being used to preserve original volumes. Pamphlets are bound in cloth to prevent them from falling apart, and endangered books are kept in specially constructed hinged boxes. These boxes are used both for books bound with sharp clasps and for those with "a fragile wrapper or cover...