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...Boston, Robert Parish had 22 points, Johnson 20 and Roberts...
...brief: Dr. Tom More, a psychologist/jailbird on parole for selling drugs, stumbles across a scheme to improve behavior patterns in Feliciana parish. His colleagues have spiked the water-supply with "molar sodium 24," a chemical substance that causes women to lose their sexual inhibitions (they present themselves rearward like primates), heightens children's school performances (verbal and mathematical scores rocket), and even helps to hone More's wife's tournament Bridge game: "This lady knows where the cards are. I don't know how she knows but she knows. I don't think she knows she knows either...
...Herold added that the diversity of the people on the newly-formed, nine-members committee--which includes two parish priests, as well as various city officials--should help to speed up the process of finding an appropriate site because many people will be on the outlook for a suitable building...
...time is the mid-1990s, and Dr. Tom More has returned home to Feliciana parish, that swath of Louisiana land running "from the Mississippi to the Pearl, from the thirty-first parallel to the Crayola blue of Lake Pontchartrain." More (a prominent, visionary presence in Love in the Ruins) has spent two years in a minimum-security federal prison in Alabama for peddling uppers and downers. "I needed the money," he tells the two physician friends who have been charged with overseeing his probation. Now Tom, alcoholism temporarily in control, needs to resume his psychiatric practice. The trouble...
...parishioners. That central act of worship can be performed only by male clerics in the Church of England, who occasionally neglect even to show up for services. Says Williams: "If I don't have someone there on Sundays to celebrate Communion, I can't do anything. For the parish, it's very frustrating to say the least...