Data has since gone on tour, if not quite adopting the road-comic lifestyle.
He also hadn't quite adopted McDaniel's extreme anti-government rhetoric.
But there is one important way in which medicine never quite adopted the scientific method.
The question of why cinema, unlike theatre, has never quite adopted tragedy as a formal genre is difficult.
As John Harbison likes to point out, the challenge of 12-tone theory made some composers who never quite adopted the techniques -- Messiaen, for one -- question themselves, rethink their work and emerge even greater.
In 1991, he married Helen Bransford, a jewellery designer from Tennessee, after they had been dating for three months and they left New York for a bucolic life in her home state, having twins in 1994 with a surrogate mother and donated eggs (the complexity of a relationship with children who are neither quite adopted nor quite biologically yours is another theme that surfaces in The Good Life).
Kagan is careful not quite to adopt Thucydides' own disdain towards "the mob", and he remains through-gritted-teeth polite to those of us who believe that Herodotus' get-it-all-down but give no credence to any of it style is nearer human experience.
"While horse racing bodies quite rightly adopt a zero tolerance policy to the presence of anabolic steroids when carrying out post-race testing, the approach is not so consistent for horses in training".
"One of the policies that England have, which works very, very well, is that you only play for England if you play within England, and Wales could quite simply adopt that policy," he said.
The son of the Italian novelist Natalia Ginzburg, he once considered writing fiction and has quite consciously adopted narrative devices in his historical work.
