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.
“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.
He was fuming under a repressive law which he was forced to acknowledge: he was dangerously poised, and Rosamond's voice now brought the decisive vibration.