Word: procession
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...according to chroniclers of his time, and was a source of much embarrassment. He forestalled it wherever possible by cracking outrageous jokes: he even seized a Swiss guard's beard to keep him from taking off. One witness stated in his deposition at Philip's canonization process that he had seen the saint with his feet off the ground on innumerable occasions...
...swelling in his chest that they took to be a tumor. But after his death, an autopsy showed that his heart was so enlarged that it had sprung two of his ribs out of position. Few who knew him doubted his sainthood. Two months after he died, the canonization process began with 194 witnesses, and less than 27 years later, Pope Gregory XV proclaimed him St. Philip Neri. "He owed his pre-eminence," writes Author Jouhandeau, ''entirely to his irresistible power of attraction. That was what won over all his disciples. Once people had come to know...
...from the senses into digital (numerical) code for transmission along the nerves. Deep in the brain itself the digital code is converted into analogue (quantitative) code for mixing with other information. Said Savely: "Here we come up against organized complexity carried to unimaginable extremes. The evolutionary culmination of this process is the human brain, which has become 'nature conscious of itself.' " Scientists know only vaguely how brains work, but as they learn more, their respect for brains increases...
...patient called Cecilie, a part drawn from the histories of several early Freud patients but mainly from the famed Anna O., a patient of Breuer's in whose case Freud became interested. She liked to talk about her symptoms because somehow that relieved her. Anna O. described the process as "chimney sweeping"; for Freud it was the foundation of the concept of psychological catharsis...
Died. Dr. Ernest William Goodpasture, 73, top U.S. pathologist and longtime Vanderbilt University Medical School professor, who in 1931 first propagated viruses in chick embryos and thus pioneered the large-scale production of vaccines against yellow fever, influenza and typhus, but never patented the process that otherwise would undoubtedly have earned him millions; of a heart attack; in Nashville, Tenn...