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...19th annual contest--which pitted local restaurants and clam chowder makers against each other--was among the many activities in Boston over the long Fourth of July weekend. This was the first year that HUDS attended...
Intentionally or not, Jacoby wrote an Independence Day column that has been written before elsewhere--and, sadly, so did most other newspaper pundits and speechwriters in the country. There wasn't much rhetorical originality on display this Fourth of July. And it's understandable: After 225 Independence Days, everything--every way of celebrating the nation's birthday in writing or speaking--seems to have been done a dozen times already. Just imagine the frustration, then, of the writer sitting before a keyboard the night of July 3 knowing that every good idea has already been ground into a clich...
...creative, but the results are comically similar. Exploring the forgotten signers of the Declaration of Independence, Jacoby's theme on Monday, seems clever and new at first--but it turns out it's nearly as common as, for instance, remembering the sacrifice of America's veterans. The half dozen Fourth of July columns that celebrate John Hart all sound exactly the same. Reform Party presidential candidate and conservative scribe Patrick Buchanan, on July 4, 1994: "Disaster struck 'Honest John' Hart first. Just months after he signed, British and Hessian troops invaded New Jersey, forcing him and his family to flee...
...there are more. It probably sounded good the first time around, but now writing about the lesser-known signers of the Declaration is just another one of the tired Fourth of July themes that circulate among America's writers like stale water in a fishtank...
...early days of the Republic, a Fourth of July oration was the centerpiece of the Independence Day celebration on hundreds of town greens across the nation, usually a speech by some prominent member of the community extolling the virtues enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The tradition has more or less died. This year's version in tradition-bound Boston--where the Fourth of July oration has somehow staggered into the 21st century--might explain why. Under the giant portrait of Daniel Webster at Faneuil Hall, an Imperial Potentate of the Shriners was the speaker this year...