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My Son John. (1952) Paranoid fantasy from the McCarthy era stars Helen Hayes and Van Heflin. Dean Jagger hits son John, a suspected Communist, over the head with a Bible in one of the film's more subtle moments. CH.5. 9 p.m. B-W. 2 hrs. 30 min.
“The Bible is a manual for rape, genocide, and the destruction of families...Religion has given us stonings, witch burnings, crusades, Inquisitions, jihads, fatwas, suicide bombers...and mothers who drown their children in the river,” he said.
Elected in one of the most fraught moments of Spain's modern history, the government of Socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero takes office this week in an atmosphere of preternatural calm. On Saturday the Prime Minister, 43, was sworn in at Zarzuela Palace in the...
—Staff writer Alex M. Sherman can be reached at sherman@fas.harvard.edu. The King James Bible will return next Friday.
DIED. EMILY MORISON BECK, 88, dogged editor of three editions of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations; in Canton, Mass. Between 1952 and 1980, she scoured works of literature and history to update and refine the essential reference book. In the classics, she favored Shakespeare and the Bible, expanding the contributions from...