By the early 1960s, a new memory culture was beginning to challenge the old, offering engagement and dialogue where once had been avoidance and an uneasy silence.

到20世纪60年代初，新的记忆文化开始挑战旧的，有人提出要对一直被回避、噤若寒蝉的问题进行反思和对话。

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It is good advice to listen closely unless she has also been given this advice, in which case an uneasy silence could develop, like two owls sitting together.

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