By the time he died Sir Colin Davis was the grand old man of British classical music.
Now, even Starcraft, the grand old man of competitive PC gaming, is at least considering Free-to-play as an option.
Nonsense, argues Peter Odell, a grand old man of oil forecasting who proved wrong the pessimists of the 1970s.
He was nearly always controversial, exciting and popular, whether as a brash teenager, composer of cutting-edge operas or grand old man of the concert hall.
One effect of such an honor, in addition to giving a grand old man overdue recognition in his dying days, is to inspire younger thinkers to make such intellectual contributions.
Its popularity exercises Qazi Hussein Ahmed, the grand old man of the Jamaat-e-Islami, the most fundamentalist of the political parties, for the Jamaat works within the state, not against it.
Two key factors will determine Labour's faithfulness, and thus the life of the coalition: the continuing rupture between Israeli peaceniks and the Palestinians, and the prominence given to Shimon Peres, Labour's senior minister in the government and the grand old man of Israeli politics.
He fell foul of the law again in 2011, after attaching a laptop computer inside the MIT network (easily achieved as, although not a member of MIT, he was, at 24, already a grand old man of computing) and downloading around 4 million journal articles from JSTOR, the access-protected academic document storage system.
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By the same token, the odds have improved for Yasuo Fukuda, a grand old party man who belongs to the same faction as Mr Abe.
"What matters is that I won two matches and I'm in the third round, " said the 25-year-old, who reached his maiden Grand Slam final last year after becoming the first man to beat Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros.
It marks the first time a witness has come forward publicly with information about the shooting of Ronald Madison, a 40-year-old mentally retarded man whose death has sparked a police investigation and a grand jury probe into what happened in and around the Danziger Bridge that day.
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