A front-cloth by Picasso now signifies a bygone age of expectations that were never quite fulfilled.
The economic wise man of the 21st century, Harvard's Ken Rogoff calls the present dreariness, "The Age of Diminished Expectation".
In this day and age of higher expectation in offices, sourcing your furniture from Ikea no longer cuts the proverbial mustard.
In an age of diminished expectations, even snobbery has to downshift.
It's the European dream for young Americans in the age of reduced expectations.
We are living in an age of "changing expectations," Ms. Bader writes, and whether a C.E.O.
Paul Krugman is a professor of economics at MIT whose books include The Age of Diminished Expectations and Peddling Prosperity.
Paul Krugman is a professor of economics at Stanford whose books include The Age of Diminished Expectations and Peddling Prosperity.
I have also written a book, The Age of Diminished Expectations, aimed at a non-technical audience.
"American Dreamers" is Kazin's bid to reclaim the left's utopian spirit for an age of diminished expectations.
