No one knows yet whether the comeback of Keegan or News at 10 will mark the return of glory days or be a reminder that they passed some time ago.
But, under the eyes of Sir Alex Ferguson, a neatly taken goal by Ravel Morrison in the 37th minute and a penalty from Will Keane in first-half stoppage time, after Terry Kennedy had handled the ball, put the home side in the driving seat as Old Trafford wondered which of this generation of starlets is marked for glory.
Loosely based on Humphrey Cobb's 1935 novel about an actual incident in World War I, Paths of Glory is everywhere marked by Stanley Kubrick's recurring themes and techniques: a fascination with the underlying absurdity of rational planning, an interest in the grotesque, and an ability to make a realistic world seem strange.
According to Bowers in his book on the denomination, "the years 1850 to 1853 were the high-water mark of the gold dollar, the glory years of the denomination when the little gold coins took the place of half dollars and silver dollars in everyday transactions".
Otherwise, Germany's current hope of returning to the deutsche mark's glory days may quickly shift, recalling the despair of the Papiermark era.
Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at a ceremony to mark Iran's Defense Industry Day, called the weapon a "messenger of glory and salvation for humanity" but an "ambassador of death" for Iran's enemies.
That moment of glory sat in stark contrast to the anguish that has marked Adriano's return to Brazil.
For Aldridge, by contrast, the opportunity of glory disappeared for good when they failed to get the marks they felt they deserved for their opening dives.
The subject of mortality comes up surprisingly often when gymnasts talk about their sport, and the Produnova seemed to mark some kind of peak in the willingness of the competitors to risk debilitating injury for the sake of glory.
