They had been best friends since they were ten: eighteen years of sharing more than mystery novels-hopes, fears, happiness, sorrow, laughter, tears, gossip, adolescent enthusiasms, hard-won insights.

That adolescent enthusiasm, well tended since sputnik, reinforces his formidable literary gifts - for metaphor, for narrative and everything between.

Bomanz wondered if he had been that rich in adolescent enthusiasm and optimism.

He felt the change to be rather like 'the shedding of an adolescent enthusiasm,.

"This is what I want - this little jobber," she says with adolescent enthusiasm.

She wants to be a doctor, but of course that's just adolescent enthusiasm.

Michaels laughed at what he called Philips' adolescent enthusiasm, when he learned that Martin was still in his office.

She could of course, she thought with that sudden burst of adolescent enthusiasm, not live.

One who showed adolescent enthusiasm.

Three decades later, that adolescent enthusiasm still animates her exceptional performances of three songs from the show.