Word: plotinus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...powerful, sensitive boy who mixed baseball and Emerson, swimming and Wordsworth. He read Plotinus before he went to Harvard and his spiritual life always returned to a silent noon in the library at Iowa City when, aged 16, ecstasy first came upon him. Thereafter he was a "panarchist...