2.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.
19.However, Alexander's experiences with Napoleon and the pressures placed on him by young nobles who had experienced Western European life made him conservative at first and then downright repressive.
20.“Pyongyang is more relaxed. It is still extremely repressive socially, but people are taking their cue from the new leadership, ” says a diplomat who lives there.