HudsonHawk
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Do you know which phrase used to mark a time period really doesn't work for me? The Golden Era.
It goes hand-in-hand with the use of the phrase The Greatest Generation to describe "the generation who grew up in the United States during the deprivation of the Great Depression, and then went on to fight in World War II, as well as those whose productivity within the war's home front made a decisive material contribution to the war effort".
I think the title was a handy hook to hang a book on, but it's wider use seems unfair to those from other periods who made such fantastic contributions to the world.
I think this is true for any such labels. They're ok for marking specific periods of time, but using them to define subjective things is dicey at best.