And this was the fifties, the grayest, bleakest, most blinkered and culturally repressive period in the entire second half of the twentieth century, especially in small-town America.

再说，那可是五十年代啊。在十世纪后半，这是阴郁，黯淡，盲目，也是文化上压抑。美国小镇上生活更是如此。