0 a period of time, sometimes imaginary, when everyone was happy, or when a particular art, business, etc. was very successful: --
1 a period of time in the past, sometimes imaginary, of great happiness and success: --
the golden age of boxing
In the golden age universities were established as real centres of excellence.
These are the factors that will usher in the golden age of performing with technology.
But we should not expect that we can establish a new golden age of capitalism or return to the old one that never was.
The medieval chapters make it clear that this was no golden age for single women.
This led to a disillusionment with social policy experiments and an end to the 'golden age of evaluation' (p. 199).
The main thing that made the 'sixties and 'seventies a golden age was that we were all young.
It was a golden age for planners of the better sort.
The supposition that things are much harder today is a variant of a golden age fallacy.
