Is Oddball really anachronistic?
People complain that Oddball was "anachronistic" since he seemed like a late-60's hippie type, but his crew resembled Gypsies and, besides, there are laid-back free-spirited types in every generation. In other words, he was the '40's precursor to the hippies of the late 60s. Just a few years after WW2 Jack Kerouac introduced the phrase "Beat Generation" in reference to the anti-conformist youth in America. Hence, the beatniks of the '50s.
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