1.   And it led naturally to the eulogy for his childhood idol in August, when he clearly spoke for a generation.

2.   And he will be wearing the uniform of his childhood idol, fellow Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi.

3.   Anybody that knows me knows that growing up, Magic Johnson and Isiah Thomas were basically my childhood idols.

4.   Back in his room in Carlyle, Saskatchewan, he has a poster of his childhood hockey idol.

5.   For once, it was not hard to believe that her childhood idol growing up in the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun was Peggy Fleming.

6.   Four poems are by Paul Goodman, a childhood idol.

7.   He instead borrowed a page from his childhood idol, Jack Nicklaus, who played smart golf while letting his chasers beat themselves.

8.   Her childhood idols were female vocalists, ranging from Judy Garland and Julie Andrews to Dolly Parton and gospel singer Sandi Patti.

9.   His leaps from the podium, which recall those of Bernstein, his childhood idol, seem the result of irrepressible excitement, not affectation.

10.   I know for a fact that my childhood idols, ballplayers such as Stan Musial and Mickey Mantle, would have paid for the privilege of playing baseball.