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Article: Editor's note.(2002 Puterbaugh Fellow, Cuban author Roberto Fernandez Retamar)(Editorial)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
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THE WEEK-LONG SCHEDULE of classroom seminars, lectures, readings, and informal gatherings that comprise the annual Puterbaugh Conference on World Literature--which culminated this year with a two-day symposium in early April--has historically brought together on the University of Oklahoma campus some of the most important literary figures in the world.
In November 1982, U.S. president Ronald Reagan was taken aback by Colombian president Belisario Betancourt's charge that the United States was consistently denying admission to his country's most prominent citizen. "But you are welcome to the States at any time," Reagan responded, to which Betancourt retorted, "I ...