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Flowersa Posted 14 years ago
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Tabernacle and attractive face

Tabernacle ?

What they mean here with the expression "Attractive face" ?

"The organization of the welfare program to provide for Mormon poor during the Depression and the radio broadcasts of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir from Temple Square in Salt Lake City gave Mormonism an attractive face."
  

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attractive = good-looking, pleasant
face [This is a use of personification to make Mormonism even more human than it inherently is.]
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tabernacle ~ house of worship

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tabernacle

attractive face ~ (metaphoric) appealing aspect; appeal

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