4 JANUARY 1963, page 16

Gordonstoun

would be interested to know upon what evidence Mr. Endymion Wilkinson bases his asser- tion that Gordonstoun ' step by step breaks a boy ' s ties with the outside world —......

Religious Double-think

SIR. —How does Charles Osborne come to the con- clusion that I am 'an agnostic yearning for the cross'? Presumably by one of the current processes of religious double-think.......

Art

Face to Face By NE VILE WALLIS ABOUT 160,000 people rounded London's windiest corner last year and entered the National Portrait Gallery. A surpris- ingly large number that,......

Ballet

Whoops ! By CLIVE BARNES THE other day, Alan Brien, talking on the BBC, suggested that classical ballet was the most fragile of arts, always awaiting demolition from the ence to......

White Australia

SIR,—Donald Horne's reasonably fair analysis of Australia is not quite accurate on two counts. There is some political rethinking of the White Australia policy and much of it......