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.
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.
“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.
" Oh no, really? " said Hermione, shooting a repressive look at Ron, who, staring at Hagrid's odd hairstyle, had just opened his mouth to say something about it.
Bestselling books predicted dystopian outcomes in which society split into a wealthy, robot-owning plutocracy and an unemployed underclass, and repressive governments would be needed to rein in social discontent.