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.

在整个二十世纪后半期，这是最阴郁，最黯淡，最盲目的时期，也是文化上最压抑的时期。美国小镇上的生活更是如此。

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It is everywhere, equally: in the whitest gallery and in the grayest bank.

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