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Richmond, April 10 -- Final Democratic Party caucuses gave Lieutenant Governor L. Douglas Wilder the delegates necessary to guarantee him the party's gubernatorial nomination. Grandson of slaves, Wilder would be the first black to be elected a Governor in U.S. history...
...There was no question, he was clearly our first choice," said Pelham Wilder, Duke University marshall and ex officio commencement committee member. Duke President H. Keith H. Brodie chose Gould from a list of five finalists last May, Wilder said...
...Duke committee selects speakers who have "something to say in the contemporary scene" and "who can say it well," Wilder said. Gould, who will receive an honorary doctor of science degree from Duke, will be the second honoree in 20 years whose background lies in science, Wilder said...
...Gould's interest is eclectic," said Wilder. Duke students have said they are familiar with Gould's work from social science and psychology as well as science, he said...
...popularity among postmodernists, who see it as a daring and prophetic form of backwardness -- as well as the paintings of his hardly less talented brother, the painter-composer-dram atist who worked under the name of Alberto Savinio and turned the late scheme of metaphysical painting into an even wilder pastiche than it had already become...