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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