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the bloom is off the roseNorth American The thing in question is no longer new, fresh, or exciting: I think the bloom is off the rose now with kiss-and-tell books...- On page 36, for example, he may flatly assert that ‘a dismal new era of higher education has dawned’; but just twenty-four pages later, we learn that ‘the tide had turned’ and the ‘the bloom is off the rose.’
- Today, the bloom is off the rose of the ‘New Economy.’
- Ultimately, now that the bloom is off the rose, his reddish-greenish affinities may not be as far from a robust version of the social-democratic perspective as he would comfortably acknowledge.
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