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...whole state is enthusiastic," coach Davey Whitney said by phone from Lorman. "We've been having a lot of problems down here in Mississippi, but the entire state is excited. We've had calls from the senators and the governor. "You know," he added, "we don't just represent Alcorn State anymore but the whole state of Mississippi. It's a thrilling time...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Big-Time Braves | 3/5/1980 | See Source »

...going to do the same things that got us here," Whitney said. "We'll run, and pass, and try to play good team defense." Naming South Alabama as the team to beat because "the team to beat is the team you've got to play first," Whitney says that a national championship isn't just a dream. "We've got to believe we can do it, or we wouldn't be here...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Big-Time Braves | 3/5/1980 | See Source »

Loose and confident, the Harvard players returned to the Payne-Whitney gym the next afternoon ready to surprise league-leading Yale. The Bulldogs were in no mood for fun and games...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Bulldogs Dump Women Cagers, 69-44 | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...HAVEN, Conn.--The tenor of Harvard's game proved as grim as the architecture of Yale's Payne Whitney Gymnasium last night, as the Bulldogs turned a tight first half into a rout, defeating the Crimson, 86-75, here in New Haven...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Yale Runs Past Cagers, 86-75 | 1/30/1980 | See Source »

...curatorial arena, diminishing the museum's own control of what it shows while encouraging clients to favor exhibitions with guaranteed pull, the situation will not improve. Eventually, we may be reduced to the Ultimate Art Show, a display of all the gold in Fort Knox relocated to the Whitney Museum or some other institution, stacked up as a minimal sculpture. By then, price will have completely supplanted meaning. The Treasure and the Masterpiece will have fused, the triumph of the art boom will be achieved, and we can all creep home. - Robert Hughes

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Confusing Art with Bullion | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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