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.
Though Khalili wasn't hiding moving from one place to another, she still found a way to join the women's protests against the Taliban's repressive measures.
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.