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THE GUARDIAN Saturday April 28 1990 ARTS, PERSONAL 21 Cell shocked Alastair Macaulay on the charismatic Kirov dancers revitalising the Royal Ballet's Giselle The flame and the cad 'S Hugh Hebert Paterson Joseph as Patroclus War and In a Troilus And Cressida which bridges times ancient and modernpHOTOGRAPH oouglas jefferv lechery in no-man's-land role new. It's rumoured that she was dancing with an injury. Some dance details in Act One were tentative, and she has been touched by the Kirov's worst habits some calculated Great Moments, some imprecise after-the-beat musicality. Even so, detail after detail brought this act new force. I loved her vivid absorption in every detail of a staging new to her, her pride with her necklace, her yearning back bends in the Mad Scene, and the broken, tipping steps that preceded her final heartbreak.

Was it only last week that this old ballet was looking tired? In Act Two her dances with Albrecht went further, reaching extraordinary heights. Wonderful firmness of line in her first adagio dance with him; astounding power in the jumps in her next solo. The Wilis in Act Two looked shabbier than usual beside such stars, but in Act One everyone rose to their highest standards. In a peasant solo (by Ashton), Ivcola Roberts showed the kind of sharp timing and complex phrasing that every Kirov artist could learn from; likewise the fierce conviction of Stephen Jefferies' Hilar-ion. I hope Asylmuratova and Zaklinsky return for longer periods, and to learn new roles.

Their is still much for them to study here, and they still have untold wisdom to offer London. bullock Ajax is a mindless, roaring boy, the great warrior's antithesis. In the magnificently ritualised and frightening battle scenes the gulf between ancient and modern is bridged: the whole grand folly indicted. The Troilus and Cressida affair is fitfully despatched by Ralph Fiennes's coolish rather self-absorbed hero, more in love with voice music than the girl. And Amanda Root, as if she were playing Juliet, makes Cressida a tragic victim rather than a flirtatious main chancer.

Simon Russell Beale's Thersi-tes, an alternative comedian billiously roaring out his contempt for the dogs of war, becomes the production's focal point. national spirit, erotic desire and male pride here become timeless energisers. But in the intellectual combat the Trojans are conceived as classic adherents of stiff-backed honour, while the Greeks range from Paul Jesson's Ulysses, the master of lost heroics, to contemporary icons of menace: Ciaran Hinds as the bisexual Achilles, in an astonishing performance which even surpasses Alan Howard's once definitive portrayal, prowls suave, quiet and watchful in black leather and a nasty smile. He exudes all the charm of a python except with his boyfriend Patroclus (Paterson Joseph, far more than a war-toy in their rather sexless exchanges). The bald HE doth teach the torches to shine bright' That radiance is what any one feels in a true ballerina, and with no dancer in Europe more surely than the Kirov's Altynai Asylmuratova, who gave a single performance of Giselle on Thursday with the Royal Ballet Could anyone take their eyes off her for a second? She's a flame, and she makes moths of us all.

Konstantin Zaklinsky, her husband, was her Albrecht, appearing with the Royal for the first time. He's almost as eyecatching. Their physical beauty, vivid bone structure, movie star looks make them destined for each other. Though he's not the flamboyant star that her former Kirov partner Farouk Ruzimatov was, Zak-linsky's greater height and breadth makes him a better foil for this riveting ballerina. I would pay money just to watch them stand, so erect, so radiant.

Zaklinsky, who is in the 1982 Kirov Giselle video, is one of nature's Albrechts a lovably handsome cad, a nobleman who enjoys playing the peasant, and, finally, an ardent, generous, devoted hero. Asylmuratova is not a traditional Giselle not doe-like, dreamy nor ethereal. She's a burningly beautiful dancer and vivid actress who like Callas as Lucia or Gilda makes the serve great men. They allowed Butler to die practically unknown." Nottinghamshire County Council commissioned this adaptation for its Samuel Butler Festival, and a rare and beautiful offering it is from Red Shift, playing in the early English Church in Langar village, where Butler was born and where his hated father was rector. Stage adaptations of Victorian novels generally leave me cold, but Red Shift contrives, as they did with Mill On The Floss, to weave narrative with drama in quite dazzling fashion to produce an audacious and devilish piece with the archness of Jane Austen and tne wit of Oscar Wilde.

The progress of the hero, Ernest Pontifex, is semi-autobiographical, and the novel, published posthumously, was a diatribe against a loveless and occupant and might be soaking in urine The reason why there weren't fresh mattresses for each new occupant was, I was told, shortage of money." The rest of Peter Taylor and Martin Bashir's report is less appalling but familiar too often there are too few staff to look after the prisonerpatients or offer even the patchy quality of care they could expect in an NHS hospital. However, in rejecting the Worrell's case for damages in the High Court, Mr Justice Pill handed down the numbing decision that prisoners have no right to expect the same standards of care as in an ordinary hospital anyway: "In my judgment the law should not and does not expect the same standards." Judge Stephen Tumin, chief inspector of prisons and one of the few judges to look just as magisterial out of a wig as in it, found the decision "If there is to be a separate and lower standard for prisoners in medical care, it would be unique in Europe, and would be shocking." MEDICAL stories used to be about dedication and discovery, now they are all about cash and cuts. There was last night's Short Stories (C4) this week it was Kate Woods's study of district nurses who now need higher skills than the old requirement to be angels on bikes but face a lot of the old problems. Like finding the patient's cat has sat on your sterile dressing. On her chosen Battersea patch, Woods sighted seven nurses looking after about 130 patients, which is roughly the equivalent of four or five hospital wards.

There was also the return of Peter Learmoufh's Surgical Spirit (Granada), or M.A.S.H. meets the NHS, with Nichola McAuliffe as the terror of the operating theatre who amputates colleagues' egos all round, and lacerates the bureaucrat trying to save on the budget. Since the doctors spend most of their time behind surgical masks, you're not always clear who is getting the cauterising blast of her scorn. But as her invective is almost the only point of the series it doesn't much matter. OMETIMES the prisoners on the roof of Strangeways seemed high in more ways than one.

They danced and pranced, mimed tip- siness and one of them jabbed his arm with an imaginary hypodermic. You couldn't be sure if this was a taunt to the screws about the use of drugs in Her Majesty's hotels, or an indication that he'd been ransacking the medicine cupboards for a shot of temporary happiness. The whole rooftop performance was a kind of pantomime reminder that men in prison live in a bizarre, Dicken-sian world in which an increasing number are the mentally sick, the suicidal and the junkies. When he picks up the pieces of our penal system, the Home Secretary is going to be encouraged to look hard at the Prison Medical Service which, on the evidence of Dippy Chaud-hary's Public Eye (BBC2), is screaming to be allowed into the 20th century before the 20th century runs out. Paul Worrell's parents have been fighting for eight years to prove that their son's suicide in Brixton Prison was the result of negligence.

Paul was mentally ill and waiting for transfer to a psychiatric hospital after conviction for grievous bodily harm. He spent four months there, shut up alone in the hospital cell for up to 22 hours a day; he made three attempts at suicide. The last was successful. And since then there has been an alarming increase in the number of suicides eight among inmates, three among prison officers in Brixton last year. Professor Paul Bowden, a visiting specialist at Brixton for more than 10 years, described a typical hospital cell where a psychiatric prisonerpatient is installed, a place without ventilation, "stifling in summer, freezing in winter.

The only furniture is a sponge latex mattress which isn't covered-. Sometimes the mattress itself is soiled by the previous Glory makes her bid for freedom and suffers the consequences. Religion and tradition are not so much adornments to the play as the whole point The calypso, or kaiso, singer is seen as a vital sounding board for the ambitious politician, giving him a knowledge and insight into his people which has been processed out of him by his British education. The singer eventually rejects a political role to revert to being the eyes and ears of the community. But the thrust of Glory is pretty simple.

The island's people have been cut off from their African roots and subjugated by an ill-fitting alien religion and culture. Their independence will be in name only since the British and Americans will continue to control the island's economy. And you can't trust politicians. Het Brookes Yesterday's weather Obituary: John Beattie Around the world (URch-tlme reports) New class for old graduates Anthropology at Oxford and Leiden grim and high pitched production shows sign of strain, but the signature of promise is scribbled right acrosss it. Mendes has followed his peers by imposing modern frames of reference upon it But the tactic is not simply engaged.

When Norman Rodway's Pandarus, performing like an Edwardian actor laddie, appears in party spirit, he is dressed in blazer and boater. Mendes locates the play, temporally speaking.in a no-man's-land. The modern military light kahki garb, medals, black leather, portable radio and desk lamps go, so to speak, hand in glove, with breast plates, armour and cutlasses. The precipitating goads of fairly unsubtle parallel to what colonialism has done to the island. As Adjoa Andoh, who plays Glory, explains, the role "is challenging because the play does not have a linear progression.

I am continually changing between child, teenager and Cross has structured the piece to incorporate elements of carnival, calypso and both pagan and sacred ritual. Music is used as a running narrative, and a band of masqueraders are both commentators on the action and harbingers of what is to come. The focus flows seamlessly back and forth across a 25-year period, between Glory's personal story and the bigger picture of the political wrangling between colony and colonial power. As Oscar James's determined and ultimately ruthless local politician assumes the mantle of Prime Minister, so cent Reddish, astronomer, author, 64; Debbie Rix, broadcaster, 34; Jeffrey Tate, principal conductor, English Chamber Orchestra and Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 47; Garfield Weston, chairman, Associated British Foods and Fortnum and Mason, 63; Lady Helen Windsor, 26. Tomorrow: Ann Bell, actress, 51; Lynda Chalker, MP, Minister of Overseas Development, 48; Brenda Dean, General Secretary, Sogat '82, 47; Anita Dobson, actress, 41; Lonnie Donegan, pop singer, 59; Deryck Guyler, actor, 76; Dr Michael Heidelberger, biochemist, 102; Celeste Holm, actress, 71; David Icke, broadcaster, spokesman for the Green Party, 38; Zlzi Jean-maire, dancer, actress, 66; Cheryl Kennedy, singer, actress, 43; Irvin Kershner, film director, 67; Zubln Mehta, conductor, 54; Gen Sir Patrick Palmer, military secretary, Ministry of Defence, Sammy Rimington, jazz musician, 48; Jacob Rothschild, merchant banker, 54; Rudolf Schwarz, conductor, 85; Jeremy Thorpe, former leader of the Liberal Party, 61; Jean (Toots) Thielemanns, jazz musician, G8; David Tindle, painter, 53.

Nicholas de Jongh at the Swan, Stratford P7 ARS and lechery' dom-yj inate the world of Troilus and Cressida. But this tabloid-newspaper reductionism desribes the hardest, the most cerebral of all Shakespeare plays. Theatre directors from Guthrie to Adrian Noble by way of Peter Hall and John Barton have been lured by the sheer difficulty of translating its argument to the stage. Sam Mendes, the bright young hope of theatrical tomorrows, is thus plunged in at the deep end, after directing Shakespeare only once before. His Hammersmith Lyric Adam Sweeting Glory! AS THE recent Test series showed, feelings about racism and the colonial past still simmer powerfully throughout the Caribbean.

Felix Cross's a co-production by the Temba Theatre Company and Derby Playhouse, depicts a Caribbean island not unlike Trinidad struggling towards independence from the British. Interwoven with that is the tale of Glory, the sexually abused daughter of a local policeman trying to free herself from a strait-jacket of European religion and a family keen to stifle all her options. The moral perversion of her family and its impact on her forms a Birthdays STUDIES in the Book of Life by Edward Blishen (above) run to a round dozen, all autobiographical, that tell you more about English sensibility in his times than many a pretentious novel. He began as a writer in the Guardian, indeed in the Manchester Guardian, with hilarious and eye-opening sketches of life in the secondary school classroom where he spent the 1950s. In spite of those devilish eyebrows his prevailing weather is a special mixture of the rueful and the wry recurrently, still, about his father.

(If you haven't read him start with the volume called Sorry, Dad.) Lately he's been rueful about growing old age is the most unexpected of all things that befall a man" Trotsky). He's 70 today, and one may not be thanked for saying so. Other birthdays Today: Ann-Margrct, actress, 49; Ian Beer, headmaster Harrow School, former Cambridge University and England rugby footballer, 59; Mike Brearley, former England and Middlesex cricket captain, author, 48; Odette Hallowes, GC, British special forces agent in France during the Second World War, 78; Kenneth Kaunda, president of Zambia, 66; Mr Justice Leonard, 64; Professor Vin Ajacdo 19 66 London 50 Algiers 21 70 Locarno 22 72 Amsterdam 10 50 'Los Angeles 21 70 Athens 25 77 Luxembourg 10 50 Bahrain 86 Madrid 18 64 Barbados 30 86 Malorca 20 68 Barcelona 16 Malaga 20 68 Belgrade 16 61 Malta 21 70 Berlin 10 50 Manchester 9 48 'Bermuda 21 70 Melbourne 15 59 Biarritz 15 59 'Miami 27 81 Birmingham 9 48 'Montreal 20 68 Bombay 32 90 Moscow 8 46 Bordeaux 18 64 Munich 12 54 'Boston 13 55 Nairobi 20 68 Bristol 11 52 Naples 20 68 Brussels 11 52 New Delhi 34 93 Budapest 17 63 'Haw York 22 72 Cairo 39 102 Newcastle 8 46 Cape Town Dr 15 59 Nice 17 63 Cardiff 11 52 Oporto 23 73 Casablanca 21 70 Oslo 9 48 'Chicago 28 62 Paris 14 57 Cologne 11 52 Perth 3 21 70 Copenhagen 6 43 Prague 10 50 Corfu 20 68 Reykjavik 2 36 'Delias 16 61 Rhodes 21 70 'Denver 17 63 'Rio de Jan 29 82 Dublin 10 50 Riyadh 33 91 Oubrbvnik 18 64 Rome 17 63 Edinburgh 9 49 SallDurg 13 56 Faro 21 70 Seoul 19 64 Florence 20 68 Stockholm 11 52 Frankfurt 10 50 Strasbourg 15 59 Funchal 15 59 Sydney 18 64 Geneva 15 9 Tangier 19 66 Gibraltar 17 63 Tel Aviv 35 95 Glasgow 10 50 Tenertle 13 55 Helsinki 16 61 Tokyo 21 70 Hong Kong 23 73 Tunis 22 72 Innsbruck 14 57 Valencia 19 66 Inverness 7 45 'Vancouver 11 52 Istanbul Th 16 61 Venice 19 66 Jersey 12 54 Vienna 17 63 Jo'burg 18 64 Warsaw 16 61 Karachi 33 91 'Washlnglon 32 90 Lamaca 25 77 Wellington 18 64 Las Palmes 19 64 Zurich 12 54 Lisbon 21 70 pious Victorian upbringing. Red Shift evoke the spirit of the age with masks based on contemporary illustrations. In profile this exaggerates the figures into caricature, and it is this kind of boldness which gives the piece played out against a background of billowing red, white and black drapes such zest and colour.

Scripted by Robin Brown and directed by Jonathan Holloway, it is shrewdly cast Michael Sheldon as Overton, the narrator representing the middle-aged Samuel Butler, is theatrical, wry, cynical, a perfect foil for the innocent, agape Ernest (Eric McLennan) whose intentions shine like good deeds in a wicked world; and Jane Nash, as the devotedly obsequious Victorian wife, is sheer delight. Touring until May 12th: Details on 01 223 3256. Around Britain Report tor the 24 hours yesterday Sunshine Rain ended 6 pm Temp Weather (day) 1 11 Sunny am 3 12 Cloudy pm 6 14 Sunny 1 9 Sunny 3 13 Sunny am 6 14 Sunny 3 11 Bright 2 10 Cloudy 5 11 Sunny 2 11 Sunny am 7 13 Sunny 2 13 Sunny 2 9 Cloudy pm 2 9 Sunny 3 11 Sunny 5 10 Sunny 6 10 Sunny 6 11 Sunny 4 12 Sunny 5 13 Sunny 6 11 Sunny 6 11 Sunny Home Bay- SOUTH COAST Folkestone Hastings 11.3 03 11 1 01 11.0 116 11.0 .01 117 .01 11.4 .01 11.4 .01 11.8 .01 7 13 Sunny 7 14 Sunny 8 15 Sunny 6 14 Sunny 7 14 Sunny 6 14 Sunny 7 13 Sunny 7 14 Sunny 7 14 Sunny 7 14 Sunny 7 14 Sunny 6 16 Sunny 6 15 Sunny 7 14 Sunny 7 13 Sunrw Worthing. Llttlehampton Bognor Regis Havllng islam Southsea Hyaa Sandown 12.4 Ventnor to 7 6 15 Sunny 7 13 Sunny 7 13 Sunny a 13 Sunny 7 14 Sunny 8 13 Sunny 9 14 Sunny pm 7 12 Sunny 7 11 Sunny 5 11 Sunny 7 12 Sunny 9 13 Sunny 6 10 Sunny 5 11 Sunny pm 5 9 Cloudy pm 5 11 Sunny 3 11 Sunny 7 9 Sunny 2 12 Sunny 2 9 Showers 0 8 Cloudy 3 10 Bright -2 9 Sunny am 1 12 Cloudy 3 9 Bright 0 6 Snow cm 0 12 Bright 2 10 Sunny 1 10 Shwrs am 3 10 Sunny 1 8 Hall am 3 10 Cloudy Sa union Sands- Mineneadi 112 Weslon-s-mare t2.2 South port 7,9 Morocambe 116 Douglas 4 2 WALKS Anglesey-Cardiff 119 SCOTLAND Aberdeen Aviomore EaXdalomulf Glasgow Klniosa 8.4 05 11 .01 7.3 .05 Reading not available. Leisure forecast COmbarC and walkara in Scotland can obtain a spoclat forecast by dialling 0898 500 followed by 442 In the East or 441 in the West.

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Total porlod: sunshine. 7.1hrs; rainfall, mo ii ENGLAND Aspalrla 7 7 Birmingham 6 3 .01 Bristol 112 Buxton 7 8 06 Leeds 80 London 11,6 .02 Manchester 7 1 02 Newcastle 57 Norwich 114 04 Nottingham 5 9 Plymouth 114 Ross-on-wye 7 5 .02 EAST COAST Tynemouth 81 Scarborough 85 .04 Skegness 91 .10 Hunstanton 10 5 Cromer 10,6 .07 Lowestoft 9 8 .07 Clotfon 10 9 Southend 10 5 01 Maraato .03 11.7 .03 Swanage 111 .02 WaymoNtn 11.2 Exmoutn 10.8 Telgnmoutn 11.0 Tmquny 113 Penianca 10.4 -08 Isles olSclliy 10.9 .07 Jorsey 4.1 .07 Guernsey 8.1 .04 Yet, somehow, Glory ends up feeling like a celebration. A culture that has survived all this. Cross is saying, can only rise again. Langar Pat Ashworth The Way Of All Flesh SAMUEL BUTLER commented at the end of The Way Of All Flesh that if a man wished to get on he must belong to a set Maybe he was just too much of a Rennaisance man to be identified singly with either writing, art or music, but his neglect prompted stern words from George Bernard Shaw.

"The English," he said, "do not de- ied and interesting training to equip them for the vagaries and demands of the primary classroom, or to rekindle their enthusiasm and expertise in their Secondary subjects. Several became head teachers, though many remained hooked on classroom teaching. Other people will know of Het's earlier and subsequent careers, as a teacher, as an HMI, as author and collaborator on textbooks, from the definitive edition of the work of Gunter Grass to an innovative FrenchEnglish textbook for non-specialist Secondary pupils, combing language teaching with information about life in France and England, with up to date statistics and good illustrations. She was a true internationalist, looking forward to developments in Europe and, as someone who deplored the materialistic outlook of the Thatcher philosophy, to the prospects of political change in Britain. Anne Jarvls Het Brookes born November 3, 1911; died April 14, 1990.

In our obituary of Alfred Sohn-Rethel on April 20 the English editions of his two major books were said to be out of print. In fact The Economy and Structure of German Fascism was reissued by Free Association Books with a new afterword by Jane Caplan in 1987, and is still available at 7.95. thing more than either soul or champagne at dinner. Did you see in last evening's halfpenny papers that the wretched 0scar Wilde seems to have a gleam of light before him (if it really counts for that), in the fearful exposure of his (of the prosecution's) little beasts of witnesses. What a nest of almost infant blackmailers! a reference to some of the Crown witnesses in Wilde's first trial, one of whom the judge described as "most reckless, unreliable, unscrupulous and Henry James: Selected Letters (Harvard, 1987).

ET Brookes, teacher and inspirer of generations of teachers, was a remarkable woman. Her 78 years encompassed several different careers, a wide range of interests and friends of all ages who will be shocked to learn that her incredible vitality has been snuffed out. Our paths crossed 23 years ago as a result of a letter in the Guardian, which was instrumental in getting the first Course for Women Graduates Wishing to Teach started, against heavy odds, at Enfield College of Technology (now Middlesex Polytechnic). At a time of dire teacher shortage, a group of graduates had been trying for some time to get a course to train or retrain them for a career in education. Assorted obstacles having been overcome, date fixed, members enrolled, child care organised, the College cried off saying they could find no one to run it.

Hence a cri-de-coeur letter, published one Saturday, and 30 hours later a dynamic stranger said she'd read my letter and thought she might be able to help. An ex-HMI, Het was eminently qualified to run the course, and so she did, brilliantly, for eleven years, handing it over in 1976 in good heart to her successor Alan Moor-house. The North London boroughs in particular reaped the benefit of each year's crop from the course. Many generations of children have Het Brookes to thank for providing them with teachers who might otherwise never have reached the classroom, and who had had moreover an intensive, var Another day April 28, 1895. To Edmund Gosse: go to you tomorrow in two registered envelopes, at 1 Whitehall, the fond outpourings of poor John Aldington) Symonds.

I put them in two because I haven't one big enough to hold all and it so happens that of that size I have only registered ones. I'm afraid I shan't see you so preoccupied do the evenings seem till the formidable 9th. Our guest. has a malady of the bladder, which makes him desire strange precautions and I see I foresee singular complications the flow of some I OHN Beattie was an au thority on the societies of East Africa, and an excellent teacher of sociology and social anthropology, at Oxford, where he had studied under E.E. Evans-Pritchard, and at the University of Leiden.

His academic career was usefully preceded by a twelve-year stint in the Colonial Civil Service. He entered the service, after reading philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, at an age when he was still a trifle too young to sit the Indian Civil Service examination. A scholar by natural inclination, his years in the districts of southern Tanganyika and in the Secretariat at Dar es Salaam provided him with the opportunity of serving a colony in an advanced stage of political evolution, essentially as a committed liberal and humanitarian scholar-administrator. In the course of his civil service career he developed a deep affection for the African peoples with whom he came into contact an affection born out of familiarity with the stupendous problems of development which they faced. He had an excellent command of Kiswahili.

For his anthropological field-work, John Beattie chose the people of the ancient kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara which was reduced to the status of a mere district, truncated by conquest, with the advent of colonial rule centred round the pre-eminence of neighbouring and hostile Buganda. His disinterested pursuit of social anthropological knowledge and ethnographic recording did not prevent his actively espousing the cause of the Omukana of Bun-yoro and advocating the redress of Nyroro grievances over the issue of the "Lost As in Tanganyika, so too in Bunyoro, John Beattie acquired a fluent command of the local language. He earned the affection of the people of Bunyoro who gave him a Nyoro name by which they still remember him. His authoritative treatise on the Nyoro State was to be followed by two further volumes on Nyoro Law and Nyoro Culture. Unfortunately this Droiect was sudden death of Honor, his wife, in 1978 from which he never quite recovered.

However, his chief claim to academic fame rests on the slim volume entitled Other Cultures, an extremely lucid and readable text. During his career, he held many distinguished visiting lectureships and research appointments in North America, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. E.E. Evans-Pritchard's wish that Beattie should follow him in the Chair at Oxford was frustrated by the dialectic of succession to Anthropology Chairs peculiar to British academic life. He left Oxford to fill the Chair of Anthropology at the University of Leiden with distinction.

After retirement, he returned to Oxford and supervised research as a Fellow of Linacre College. John Beattie was a man of quiet disposition who was nevertheless capable of great personal warmth which he combined with a distinctive wry humour. He raised to an art form a kind of doodling which he took to as an antidote to boredom at conferences and meetings. His home at Oxford was always open to friends from different parts of the world en route for their field or on the way back home after completing their fieldwork. And his generosity was by no means confined to academic colleagues.

During his stay in Bunyoro he gave financial help to a number of Bunyoro children with academic promise, and continued to take an interest in their progress long after returning to Oxford. A liberal scholar in the true renaissance spirit, he had wide intellectual and cultural interests which he shared with his wife, who was a well-known cello teacher. He will be remembered as an effective communicator of ideas, a persuasive teacher always willing to consider points of view other than his own, a committed researcher, and above all as a fine human being. T.Q. Sattyamurthy John Hugh Marshall Beattie, born May 8, 1915; died April 13, 1990.

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