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，那可五十年代啊。在整个二十世纪后半，，黯淡，盲目的时，也文化上压抑的时。美国小镇上的生活更如此。