A main theme of Mr. Gossett's 2006 book, "Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera," definitive on the topic of 19th-century Italian opera, is that artists of the Bel Canto era took liberties in performance, based on the particular circumstances of each production.
It's probably too much to expect that a 45-minute film (after commercials) could say something definitive about a topic as large as the Yankees and George Steinbrenner, let alone reconcile baseball's fathers-and-sons mythology with its commercial realities, though you get the feeling that Ms. Kopple would like to have done that, everything being equal.
Civilisation according to Kenneth Clark Not only did the art historian Kenneth Clark run the National Gallery and write definitive books on topics like Leonardo da Vinci and The Nude, he also showed how beautiful and serious arts television can be with his legendary 1969 series Civilisation.
While all participants recognized bioinformatics as an inter-disciplinary field encompassing concepts and techniques from the areas of biology, computer science, as well as mathematics and statistics, as expected, not all could agree on a definitive set of topics for implementation in a standard curriculum.
But Philip Gossett, author of the recent "Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera," the definitive book on the topic, makes the point that Shakespeare's original texts were relatively unknown in Italy at the time.
Jessica B. Harris, in her definitive book on the topic, "Beyond Gumbo: Creole Fusion Food From the Atlantic Rim," writes what may be the most extensive treatise on the definition of the word.
"The hard part," said Wayne R. LaFave, a law professor whose treatise on the Fourth Amendment is considered the definitive text on the topic, wrote in an e-mail, "is in taking the words used by courts (e.g., the Supreme Court's "moderate chance") and translating them into a percentage".
The original idea behind Knol was that people could collaboratively write definitive articles about any topic they like and get rewarded by earning a share of the AdSense revenues for each page they author.
I won't pretend to have the definitive answers on this topic.
There's no way we can ever give a definitive history on any topic, just a history.
Lacking any definitive evidence on the topic, the basis of these judgments must be our own pre-existing attitudes and prejudices.
