The transcription of an eminent old solo, reused as written material and arranged for a band, has a little subhistory in jazz.
Pete Seeger, the most influential figure on the festival board, was an eminent old man in his mid-40s; Joan Baez, one of its most emblematic artists, was in her early 20s.
From the walls, portraits of the eminent old men who occupied this office before him, and whose regime he and his friends have just destroyed, look down on him.
In letters accompanying the Foundation's representations, Dr Robert Howard, of the Institute of Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital in London, and Dr Nori Graham, president of the International Alzheimer's Society - both eminent old-age psychiatrists - stated that the medical tests to which Pinochet was apparently subjected were insufficient to arrive at a diagnosis of dementia.
We also encounter Nikita Khrushchev, the cold war's pre-eminent "old-stone savage armed," whose 1962 meeting with Frost provides the nearest thing to plot in Hall's book.
They decided to seek a second opinion from an older, eminent neurosurgeon.
That year, Santos made his first appearance for Brazil, striking up a polished full-back partnership with his eminent and slightly older namesake Nilton Santos – to whom he was not related – which would last for a decade.
The British Academy will wipe out that anomaly on Sunday night when the eminent 88-year-old is handed a special fellowship award at the annual ceremony in London.
On Wednesday night this eminent 73-year-old maestro, now a little freer to accept guest appearances, conducted the New York Philharmonic after an absence of nearly 20 years.
Before agreeing to take on the "Ring," Tankred Dorst, the eminent 80-year-old German playwright, director, filmmaker, storyteller and actor, had done just about everything one could do in theater with one exception: direct an opera.
