本日の「朝日新聞」(朝刊)にあった広告です。
副題の Eyes of the storm で連想するのは,in the eye of the stormというイディオムです。Weblio には;
1 訳語 (多くの人々に影響を与えるような)重大な問題や議論に巻き込まれている様子
2 訳語 台風の目の中;(転じて)(人や組織が問題などの)渦中に
解説 be in the eye of the stormのように使用される。
とあります。
https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/in+the+eye+of+the+storm
英英には”deeply involved in a difficult or controversial situation which affects or interests a lot of people"
He was often in the eye of the storm of congressional debates related to U.S. troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
と例文とともに定義されています。
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/jp/dictionary/english/in-the-eye-of-the-storm
さらに文学好きにはノーベル賞文学賞を1973年に受賞したPatric Whiteの心に残る名作を思い出す人もいるでしょうか。わたしも高校教員時代に Vossともに読みました。
The Eye of the Storm is the ninth published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. It tells the story of Elizabeth Hunter, the powerful matriarch of her family, who still maintains a destructive iron grip on those who come to say farewell to her in her final moments upon her deathbed.
In 2020, an extraordinary trove of nearly a thousand photographs taken by Paul McCartney on a 35mm camera was re-discovered in his archive. They intimately record the months towards the end of 1963 and beginning of 1964 when Beatlemania erupted in the UK and, after the band's first visit to the USA, they became the most famous people on the planet. The photographs are McCartney's personal record of this explosive time, when he was, as he puts it, in the 'Eyes of the Storm'. 1964: Eyes of the Storm presents 275 of McCartney's photographs from the six cities of these intense, legendary months - Liverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C. and Miami - and many never-before-seen portraits of John, George and Ringo. In his Foreword and Introductions to these city portfolios, McCartney remembers 'what else can you call it - pandemonium' and conveys his impressions of Britain and America in 1964 - the moment when the culture changed and the Sixties really began. 1964: Eyes of the Storm includes: - Six city portfolios - Liverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C. and Miami - and a Coda on the later months of 1964 - featuring 275 of Paul McCartney's photographs and his candid reflections on them - A Foreword by Paul McCartney - Beatleland, an Introduction by Harvard historian and New Yorker essayist Jill Lepore - A Preface by Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London, and Another Lens, an essay by Senior Curator Rosie Broadley
https://www.amazon.co.jp/1964-Eyes-Storm-Paul-McCartney/dp/0241619718
つまり,eyesはThe Fab Fourと呼ばれたBeatlesの目のことで,突然,スターダムに駆け上がった四人のドキュメントととらえることができます。
ともかくも時間を見つけて出掛けてみようと思います。(UG)