The English novelist Anthony Powell (pronounced "pole"), best known for his 12-volume masterpiece A Dance to the Music of Time, died last Tuesday at 94. The New York Times devoted generous space to his obituary as well as a photo of the author at his home but, as Arnold Beichman points out, failed to mention his political views -- namely his staunch anticommunism. Beichman, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, wrote on the subject in the Feb. 19, 1996, issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD ("Anthony Powell, Anti-Communist"). Aside from his storied career as a novelist, Powell was a member of the London eating club known as "The Reactionaries," whose members included Robert Conquest and Kingsley Amis. And much of A Dance to the Music of Time is spent, in Beichman's words, "skewering those of his countrymen who indulged in the most destructive passion of our time: the passion for Communist ideology and the Soviet Union." Powell, Beichman rightly noted, "does not deserve to have his passion for freedom and his enduring opposition to totalitarianism ignored."