anachronism?

[Laurence Horn]

>>>From a review in my morning paper:
>
>"[The playwright] stumbles only when she interjects late-20th-century
>vernacular--Al confessing 'It was all getting to weird, I just had to get
>out'--into a story set 50 years earlier."
>
>The reviewer is asserting that "weird" could not have been used in this way
>in the earlier 1940s. Surely this is incorrect?

I wonder if the real objection on the reviewer's part was not to the
well-established use of WEIRD as 'uncanny, strange', but to the use of the
'all getting too ...' locution.  Just a guess, and perhaps Ron can disabuse
me of it by establishing that the objection was indeed to the use of
'weird' in particular.

larry