I admire the poetry of Edward Estlin Cummings, but his Charles Eliot Norton “nonlectures” make me think less of him as a person. It’s easy for a Harvard grad who grew up in a family that owned not one but two summer homes to speak scornfully of (his scare quotes) “security.” A child whose parents regularly had to choose between rent and groceries might see a closer relationship between security and the freedom EEC so valued.