University of Missouri School of Law Scholarship Repository Faculty Publications Faculty Scholarship 3-2019 References to Television Shows in Judicial Opinions and Written Advocacy (Part II) Douglas E. Abrams University of Missouri School of Law,
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[email protected]. WRITING IT RIGHT REFERENCES TO TELEVISION SHOWS IN JUDICIAL OPINIONS AND WRITTEN ADVOCACY (PART II) Douglas E. Abrams1 In the Journal’s January- ditional nuclear American family with realities that characterize many families that appear in court today.5 February issue, Part I of this “By the mid-ifties,” Pulitzer Prize-winner David Halberstam explained, “television portrayed a wonderfully antiseptic world article began by surveying of idealized homes in idealized, unlawed America. There were television’s profound influence no economic crises, no class divisions or resentments, no ethnic tensions, few if any hyphenated Americans, few if any minority on American culture characters.”6 Especially idealized, said Halberstam, was since the early 1950s, a television’s portrayal of the two-parent household: sturdy foundation for “There was no divorce.