Word: maurrants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spilling out of a Manhattan tenement onto a June-baked side street are all Mr. Rice's once-familiar exhibits-gossips, sluts, roughnecks, a dispossessed family, a jittery expectant father, the Negro janitor, the Italian music teacher, the Jewish law student, young Rose Maurrant whom he loves, and Rose's ill-mated parents-the mother who has taken a lover, the father who has taken to drink. Long brooding over the Maurrants, melodrama bursts upon them at last-with two quick revolver shots behind an open window...