Philip Ennion, a young learner driver, told BBC News 24 the organisation's ideas made sense.

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Enthralled by the European sophistication of Gropius (who had once been married to Alma Mahler), MoMA's young architecture curator Philip Johnson in 1932 set about canonizing him and Mies, as well as representatives of other European countries such as the French architect Le Corbusier.

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Peacetime brought the return of Lieutenant Prince Philip of Greece, a handsome young naval officer who had, by all accounts, had won her heart when she was just 13.

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Fortunately for Arthur, the leader of the Marine Band at the time was a pretty fair songwriter -- a young Marine sergeant major by the name of John Philip Sousa.

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The hero of the film, which is loosely based on a Philip K. Dick story from 1954, is a brash young New York politician, David Norris (Matt Damon), who may be headed for the White House.

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We join him in Ohio, where his cause is being propelled by a snapping young press spokesman (Ryan Gosling) and a paunchy campaign manager (Philip Seymour Hoffman).

NEWYORKER: The Ides of March

Philip Lawson, a Suffolk farmer now in his late eighties, returned to the place where, as a young flight lieutenant on a secret mission, he had spied out a potential airstrip and encouraged the local people to scythe the fields and remove the rocks.

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