July 1994
In This Issue
Explore the July 1994 print edition below. Or to discover more writing from the pages of The Atlantic, browse the full archive.
Articles
What Would the World Be Like Without Him?
Pope John Paul II helped to free Eastern Europe from communism—a historic achievement for the man and his Church. Now he has turned his moral scrutiny on capitalism
He Was a Crook
A scathing obituary of Richard Nixon, originally published in Rolling Stone on June 16, 1994
The Fbi and Leo Tolstoy: James Carroll's Themes: The Pull of Violence and the Moral Necessity of Nonviolence
F Was a Fanciful Frog
Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire
Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights
Nineteenth Century Art
Seismosaurus the Earth Shaker
The Myths of August
A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb
The Puzzler
Word Histories
The July Almanac
Incorrigible
Bringing social hope and political rhetoric into instructive contact with what it means to be human
Fab Past Forty
Shakespeare's Poor Relations
Definitive Graham
Women Walking Tall
Who's the Greatest of Them All?
When Max Met Ely
The White Knight
The Trying Dutchman
All of Verdi, Rain or Shine
The Dawn of Opera
Networking
At a gathering of computer barons our correspondent samples visions of the future
Riding the Rails of Rajasthan
An itinerary, and some advice, for a first-time visitor to India
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
When Parents Are Not in the Best Interests of the Child
Are some troubled children better suited to institutional care than to conventional family settings? If the answer is yes, as many child-care experts believe, then the fate of those children may rest on the outcome of a struggle now occurring between family advocates and advocates of treatment facilities, which rely heavily on public support
Strong and Sensitive Cats
The cat is surely America’s favorite domestic animal, but remarkably little is known about its inner world. The author describes two important traits of cats: their highly developed sense organs and the fact that they are social creatures rather than solitaries
Thrill
The Roots of My Preoccupations
In this, his second autobiographical essay, the author tells of his government career in Catholic Ireland near the end of the Second World War, of his discovery of the major themes of his intellectual life, and of the motives that impelled the Irish Prime Minister to pay a (universally condemned) condolence call on the German legation at the news of Hitler’s death
The Stucco House
That was how things happened, Teddy decided. That was how God ran his game. He sat up there and thought of mean things to do and then changed his mind
The Night We Knew for Sure
Marlon Brando and Tennessee Williams
Hell's Capital
The ghosts of the Third Reich still haunt Berlin, and create unique barriers—physical, moral, historical—for architects redesigning the city
