As always, there are the power worshippers, especially among historians, who are predisposed to admire whatever is strong, who feel more attracted to the might of Rome than to the subtlety of Greece.
Liberal columnists who long idolized the Clintons are even writing more-in-sorrow-than-anger pieces asking how Bill and Hillary could descend to such deceptive tactics.
I idolized the great improvisers like Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw, but I rarely sought a soloist role. I was content being a sideman, playing notes written by someone else.
It's a completely helpless feeling to watch a healthy friend or relative take a turn for the worse, especially when it's someone you've virtually idolized as a little girl.
Idolized in Vienna, legendary French maestro pretre first came to eminence for his recordings with the great Maria Callas and is a leading expert on and interpreter of the music of the Strauss family.
That beautiful baby who became a Star Wars-obsessed boy, then a difficult teenager with a Liam Gallagher scowl, and now a fine young man of 30, whose presence on this planet makes it a better place.