Today's Birthday is a free service of TheFreeDictionary.com http://www.thefreedictionary.com en-us Farlex, Inc. Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT 360 http://www.thefreedictionary.com http://img.tfd.com/modules/thm_tb.png 120 60 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Claude+Levi-Strauss http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Claude+Levi-Strauss#2009 Claude Lévi-Strauss is best known as the founder of structuralism, an anthropological theory that stresses the interdependence of cultural systems and the way they relate to one another. He theorized that culture is a system of symbolic communication that, like phonemic differences in language, owes its meaning to structure. Borrowing heavily from contemporary linguistics, his theory was a major departure from earlier "functionalist" theories. Why was Lévi-Strauss investigated by the FBI? Discuss
]]> Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/James+Agee http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/James+Agee#2009 Agee was an American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, and film critic who wrote for several magazines, including Fortune, Time, and The Nation. His first major book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a commentary on the life of tenant farmers in the South in the 1930s, is ranked among the greatest literary works of the 20th century by the New York School of Journalism and the New York Public Library. Which book earned Agee a posthumous Pulitzer Prize?
]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Norbert+Wiener http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Norbert+Wiener#2009 Wiener was an American mathematician and educator who made significant contributions to a number of areas of mathematics, including harmonic analysis and Fourier transforms. He is best known, however, for his theory of cybernetics, the comparative study of control and communication in humans and machines. Wiener declined an invitation to join the Manhattan Project, and, after World War II, wrote an article titled "A Scientist Rebels," urging scientists to do what?
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