I. Pow ‧ ell, Anthony /ˈpaʊl/ BrE AmE
(1905–2000) a British writer best known for his series of 12 novels A Dance to the Music of Time (1951–1975), which describes the lives of a group of ↑ upper-class friends over a long period.
II. Powell, Co ‧ lin /ˈpəaʊəl, ˈkəʊlən/ BrE AmE
(1937–) a US politician who was the first African American Secretary of State (2001–05). He became famous as a military leader during the Gulf War of 1991.
III. Powell, E ‧ noch /ˈiːnɒk $ -nɑːk/ BrE AmE
(1912–98) a British politician in the ↑ Conservative Party , who was a government minister in the early 1960s, and later left the Conservative Party and became an MP in Northern Ireland. He is remembered especially for a speech he made in 1968 in which he said that if the UK allowed too many black people to come and live there, there would be fighting and ‘rivers of blood’ in the streets. Although some people admired him for his intelligence, his ↑ patriotism , and his opposition to the EU (European Union), he was greatly criticized for this speech, because people believed that it encouraged ↑ racist attitudes.
IV. Powell, Michael BrE AmE
(1905–1990), a British film ↑ director , who made most of his important films with the Hungarian-born director Emeric Pressburger (1902–1988). They included The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Matter of Life and Death (1946), The Red Shoes (1948), and The Battle of the River Plate (1956). Powell also directed Peeping Tom (1960), the ↑ controversial film of a murderer who filmed his victims as he killed them.