Word: koss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stereophile who wants to take it with him but is leary about disturbing motel neighbors or officemates with blasts of three-dimensional sound, the Koss Personal Listener provides a four-speed turntable, a stereo amplifier with individual channel volume controls, plus a pair of wide-range stereo earphones. The whole business packs neatly into a leatherette carrying case; there are provisions for two sets of earphones for "his" and "hers" listening. Price...
...Your cover story read like a watered-down satire with tongue on rye, instead of tongue in cheek, until I reached the perceptive quote from School Psychologist Koss. The quotes that followed, especially the one from "Anti-Conformity Leaguer" Ginger Powers [whose league disbanded because it was becoming too organized], quieted my fear that even TIME had fallen into the easy rut of sameness that suburban living is apt to breed...
...beanie-capped boys who visit fire stations, make kites and tie knots, all en masse, and the Little League has more than a million little sports who are cheered on by an equal number of overexuberant daddies. "Some kids," says Long Island School Psychologist Justin Koss, "need the Little League. But some need to dig in their own backyards, too. The trouble is that plenty of parents think that if their kid isn't in Little League, there's something abnormal about him." Declares Shirley Vandenberg, 33 (three children), of Portland, Ore.'s suburban Oak Grove...