【单选题】

Because many of the blacklists in the communications and entertainment industries were secret, the number of playwrights, script writers, novelists, and journalists who were______to stop writing permanently is______.
A．(A) happy… astounding

B．(B) forced… unknown
C．(C) unafraid … impressive
D．(D) inclined… unsurprising
E．(E) remiss … inconceivable