All right, air-raid warning. In come these old, obsolete five-hundred-mile-an-hour planes. These things come in, the air raid warning system goes up, everybody grabs their helmets, they grab their first-aid kits, they walk out into the street, the people powder their noses a second time, go out of the nightclub in an orderly fashion. They walk down the steps into the shelters, the air-raid siren is finally sounded again. And they run the trucks out and they get the ladders all fixed and they get … [Read more...] about Lecture: The Emotional Curve (1952)