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by Adam Gopnik


  Tammany Hall, 116

  Tarasov, Anatoli, 173, 174

  Tchaikovsky, Pyotr: Winter Daydreams, 38, 39

  team sports, 150–53; British origins/traditions of, 153, 156, 162, 175; as clan sports, 156–62, 163, 173–76; as craft sports, 163–76; famous coaches of, 168, 169, 171; from fan’s point of view, 162–66, 172–74; and game theory, 166–73; and militarism, 151, 152; and open vs. closed information, 167–73; as purifying/anti-sexual, 151; as “self-policing,” 156, 162, 175; shootouts in, 169–70; as warfare, 152–53, 159. See also game theory; hockey

  Thanksgiving, 97, 120, 130

  Thomson, Tom, 43

  Titanic, 19, 44, 49

  trap (hockey game strategy), 169, 171, 173

  Tredgold, Thomas, 27

  troika, travel by, 136–38

  Trollope, Anthony, 113, 215

  turkey, Christmas: on menus, 121; as Scrooge’s gift, 106, 107, 108, 112, 116, 118, 129

  Turner, J. M. W., 29–30, 32, 39, 40, 47

  Tweed, William M. “Boss,” 116

  ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock prints), 39–40

  underground city (Montreal), 181–82, 186–94; ancient/literary precursors of, 190; cars and, 193; compared to that of Dallas, 192; density of, 192; light/temperature in, 191–93; as Ponte’s creation, 187, 188–90, 191, 213; as public property, 189; and rebirth of central city, 190; as second city, 191; size/amenities of, 187–88; and subway, 189–90; and virtuous circle of pedestrian traffic, 190–91, 193–94

  Updike, John, 163; Rabbit at Rest, 129–30

  Vaughan, Henry, 100

  Vaux, Calvert, 147

  vernalization, 178–79

  Verne, Jules: The Sphinx of the Ice Fields, 74

  Viau, Théophile, 160

  Victorian era: and Christmas, 101–3, 123, 124, 126

  Victoria Skating Rink (Montreal), 155, 160, 185

  Vigneault, Michel, 154

  Villon, François: “Ballad of Yesterday’s Beauties,” 181, 206, 208, 211, 214

  Vivaldi, Antonio, 7, 77; The Four Seasons, 9; “Winter,” 6–7, 31, 53, 211

  Vyazemsky, Pyotr: “First Snow,” 25

  Wainwright, Loudon, Jr., 126

  Walcott, Derek, 180

  Waldteufel, Émile: “The Skater’s Waltz,” 135

  walking/wandering in winter, 2, 15, 193; Coleridge on, 13–14; Johnson on, 9–10, 11, 25, 26; in Montreal’s underground city, 181–82, 186–94; by polar explorers, 79–80, 182; in Winterreise, 23–24

  Walsh, Bill, 168

  watching winter. See windows

  Waterhouse, Keith: City Lights: A Street Life, 187

  Watt, James, 28

  Watt-Cloutier, Sheila, 201

  Welles, Orson, 29, 103; Citizen Kane, 207; The Magnificent Ambersons, 207

  Wells, H. G.: The Time Machine, 190

  Westminster Review, 108

  Weyprecht, Karl, 78

  white: Christmas as, 9; as colour of winter, 40–41

  windows: of department stores at Christmas, 118–19, 120, 129–30; ice flowers on, 20–21, 42, 45, 50, 132, 205; of polar exploration, 90–91; two sides of, 15; watching winter through, 1–2, 5, 15, 23–24, 27, 28, 31, 53, 183, 194, 205, 214, 215, 216–17

  winter: and changes in rules/behaviour, 119–20; childhood, 1–2, 13, 134, 140–41, 156, 186–87, 204–5, 216–17; and climate change, 182, 199–202; coldness of, 1–2, 5, 7, 8–9, 119; and imagination, 18–20, 23–24, 204; and memory, 181–83, 202–8; modern mystique/romance of, 3–4, 10–50; mythology of, 3, 5, 37, 95–98, 118, 202, 211; naming/conquest of, 5–6, 72–73, 209–17; necessary stress of, 178–79, 193–94; and northern countries/people, 17–18, 204; and perspective of safety, 4–5, 13; science of, 5, 7–8; as sign of God’s purpose, 20–24, 30, 31, 32, 39, 45; spatial/polar, 54–55, 200; as timeless, 205–8; as time of social activities, 36, 37, 138. See also Christmas; loss of winter; memories; polar exploration; Romantic winter; winter sports and recreations entries

  “Winter” (Vivaldi), 6–7, 31, 53, 211

  winter forms: as both lethal and labile, 14–15, 19, 204–5; Coleridge’s visions projected onto, 13–14, 15, 18–19, 204; in Friedrich’s painting, 16–17, 18–20, 64–65; Goethe on, 21. See also ice; snow

  winter solstice festivals: Kalends, 95, 96, 97–98; and reversal, 95–96, 97–98; Saturnalia, 95–96, 97–98, 118; and winter solstice, 94, 95, 98, 120, 214

  winter sports and recreations, 134–77; as city phenomena, 134, 146, 153, 157–63, 176–77; movement/speed of, 26, 136–38; and Nazism, 152; as solitary activities, 138–44, 152, 177; in Switzerland, 145–46; as tests of courage/endurance, 83, 152; work involved in, 141–42

  winter sports and recreations (specific): bobsledding, 145; figure skating, 148, 149, 150; hockey, 134, 136, 146, 153–77; luge, 141, 145, 146, 152; Olympic, 151, 171–72, 174; skating, 135, 142–49, 150; skiing, 2, 74, 79, 136, 141, 142, 145, 146, 152; sledding, 136, 137–38, 152; sleighing, 11, 26, 36, 37, 136–38. See also specific sports and recreations

  women, as inspired by/recorders of winter: Bishop, 195–98; Bradfield, 72; Diski, 198; Hensel, 30–31, 38, 40, 214; Jameson, 33–38, 138; Mitchell, 179, 180, 214, 216; Shelley, 51–53, 59, 62, 73–74, 78, 81, 85, 91

  women, as winter subjects: in French poetry, 41; in Russian poetry, 25–26, 149. See also “Snow Queen”

  wood, as heating fuel, 12–13; and fireside view of winter, 10–13, 213

  Woods, Hanford: “The Drubbing of Nesterenko,” 175

  Woolf, Virginia, 30

  Woolworth, Frank Winfield, 120

  Woolworth’s (New York), 120

  Wordsworth, William: The Prelude, 139–41; as skater, 139–41, 142, 144, 177, 194

  world wars. See First World War; Second World War

  Yule, 96

  Zeckendorf, William, 188

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