Word: impoverishment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...participants spend long hours in silent and solitary contemplation amidst wilderness surroundings. One notable visitor to the Arizona retreat was Jesuit Theologian Walter J. Burghardt, a member of the Pope's Theological Commission. "What do I think of it all?" he wrote about his contemplative experiences. "Words impoverish. For it was at once tempestuous and calming, a wrestling and a dancing, a stillness and a cry. Nothing in my 57 years rivals...
...lost all his money at cards. Meanwhile, the town's mayor receives words that an inspector general, travelling incognito, is to pay a surprise visit to the town, where he will inevitably discover all of the pecadillos and greater sins the administrators have made habitual. The officials mistake the impoverish Khlestakov for the Inspector General, and he is wined, dined, and "lost" money (the officials leading it think that they are bribing him to ignore their corruption). When he decides he must leave temporarily, he is given the best coach and fastest horses in town...