Word: score
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Princeton, the overall winner, finished with 79 bout victories, and Penn placed second with 77. Harvard collected but 48 bouts as all too often Crimson fencers who seemed on the verge of sealing a victory would fall on the short side of a 5-4 score...
After losing two of his first three bouts, Bierer ran off a mini-streak of four straight victories. But the score in three of those matches was 5-4, and Bierer did not show his best, most aggressive form...
Coach McCurdy, looking at the race from a statistical point of view, said, "You take five people to the Nationals. They all qualify for the finals. They all score. And they all become All-Americans. How the hell can you do any better than that...
Indeed Lulu, the tragedy of a dancer whose almost mythic embodiment of the erotic principle wreaks universal destruction and death, seemed to be the one modern opera that had everything: electrifying theatricality, sex, moral seriousness, virtuoso scoring-everything, that is, except a third act. When he died in 1935, Berg had completed the third act particella, or short score; but he left the orchestration incomplete and the act was never published. Ever since, opera companies have had to present Lulu in two acts, with a makeshift third act tacked...
...triumph of the production was that it laid out the full span of Berg's intricate, marvelous score, seamlessly completed by Viennese Composer Friedrich Cerha. It was given an exhilarating performance by Boulez, with notably precise, transparent playing by the Paris Opera orchestra...